[patch] makedumpfile: update/clarify README
Randy Dunlap
rdunlap at xenotime.net
Tue Sep 4 16:36:18 EDT 2007
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:57:08 +0900 tachibana at mxm.nes.nec.co.jp wrote:
> Makefile installs ld command etc. and they influence kernel build.
> We installed elfutils-0.125 not by 'make install' but by procedure
> written at README of makedumpfile-1.1.6 in RHEL5.0 environment.
> Please uninstall elfutils-0.125 and elfutils-0.128 and try the above
> procedure.
Hi tachibana-san,
Thanks for that info. I completely missed that in the README file.
Please update the README file with this patch.
---
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com>
Warn not to use "make install" for elfutils.
Fix a few typos.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com>
---
README | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- makedumpfile-1.1.6.orig/README
+++ makedumpfile-1.1.6/README
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@
======================
* REQUIREMENTS
- Please download the following library file and install it:
+ Please download the following library file and install it exactly as below;
+ do NOT use "make install".
- elfutils-0.125.tar.gz
The "make install" of elfutils installs some commands (ld, readelf, etc.),
- and the compiling problem sometimes happens due to using the installed
- commands. To install only the library files, do the following method.
+ and compiling problems sometimes happen due to using the installed
+ commands. To install only the library & header files, use the following
+ method:
# tar -zxvf elfutils-0.125.tar.gz
# cd elfutils-0.125
# ./configure
@@ -85,8 +87,8 @@
make: *** [makedumpfile] Error 1
#
- The compiler cannot find out elf_getshstrndx() because it tries
- searching it only from /usr/lib/libelf.a though elf_getshstrndx()
+ The compiler cannot find elf_getshstrndx() because it tries
+ searching for it only from /usr/lib/libelf.a though elf_getshstrndx()
is archived in /usr/local/lib/libelf.a.
To solve the problem, add the option (-L/usr/local/lib/) to CFLAGS
of Makefile like the following:
@@ -104,4 +106,3 @@
Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Masaki Tachibana <tachibana at mxm.nes.nec.co.jp>
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