makedumpfile and elfutils

[Petr Tesarik]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 00:16:04 +0000
Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi at mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> Hello Joe,
> 
> > I am updating a bitbake recipe to build makedumpfile 1.5.6.  The current
> > recipe builds 1.4.4 and includes a version of elfutils.  For 1.5.6 you say
> > to use elfutils-0.142 but we already have version 0.158 so I don't see why
> > we should need an older version, too.  makedumpfile builds linking to
> > elfutils-0.158.
> >
> >
> >
> > Do we really need elfutils-0.142?
> 
> No, 0.142 or later are OK, you don't need to downgrade it.
> However, I didn't test the recent versions of elfutils, so please let me
> know if you find any problems.

For the record, makedumpfile linked against 0.158 has now been
extensively tested during the development of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.
No problems found whatsoever. ;-)

Petr Tesarik