makedumpfile and elfutils

[Louis Bouchard]

Hello,

Le 03/07/2014 14:42, Petr Tesarik a écrit :
> 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
> 

0.158 is in use in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty. Debian Jessie & Unstable both use 0.159
and I haven't heard any issue on my side either.

Kind regards,

...Louis


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