BOOK/chapter08/libelf.xml

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   7
   8 <sect1 id="ch-system-libelf" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="libelf.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>libelf</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&elfutils-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&elfutils-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Libelf from Elfutils-&elfutils-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-system-libelf">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Libelf">Libelf</primary>
  21   </indexterm>
  22
  23   <sect2 role="package">
  24     <title/>
  25
  26     <para>Libelf is a library for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format)
  27     files.</para>
  28
  29     <segmentedlist>
  30       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  31       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  32
  33       <seglistitem>
  34         <seg>&elfutils-fin-sbu;</seg>
  35         <seg>&elfutils-fin-du;</seg>
  36       </seglistitem>
  37     </segmentedlist>
  38
  39   </sect2>
  40
  41   <sect2 role="installation">
  42     <title>Installation of Libelf</title>
  43
  44       <para>Libelf is part of elfutils-&elfutils-version; package. Use
  45       the elfutils-&elfutils-version;.tar.bz2 as the source tarball.</para>
  46
  47     <para>Prepare Libelf for compilation:</para>
  48
  49     <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                \
  50             --disable-debuginfod         \
  51             --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy \
  52             --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
  53
  54     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  55
  56 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  57
  58     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
  59
  60 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
  61
  62 <!--    <para>One test, run-elfclassify.sh, is known to fail.</para>-->
  63
  64     <para>Install only Libelf:</para>
  65
  66 <screen><userinput remap="install">make -C libelf install
  67 install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig
  68 rm /lib/libelf.a</userinput></screen>
  69
  70   </sect2>
  71
  72   <sect2 id="contents-elfutils" role="content">
  73     <title>Contents of Libelf</title>
  74
  75     <segmentedlist>
  76       <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
  77       <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
  78
  79       <seglistitem>
  80         <seg>
  81           libelf.so (symlink) and libelf-&elfutils-version;.so
  82         </seg>
  83         <seg>
  84           /usr/include/elfutils
  85         </seg>
  86       </seglistitem>
  87
  88     </segmentedlist>
  89
  90     <variablelist>
  91       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  92       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  93       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  94
  95       <varlistentry id="libelf">
  96         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libelf</filename></term>
  97         <listitem>
  98           <para>Contains API functions to handle ELF object files</para>
  99           <indexterm zone="ch-system-libelf libelf">
 100             <primary sortas="c-libelf">libelf</primary>
 101           </indexterm>
 102         </listitem>
 103       </varlistentry>
 104
 105     </variablelist>
 106
 107   </sect2>
 108
 109 </sect1>