[fedora-arm] elfutils build problem with ARM bootstrap

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:01 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:

> The elfutils ar has never actually supported the u option.
> (That's a trivial bug that I'll fix.)

Ah...so I'm not going crazy...well, not any more so :)

> What's unusual is that you are actually running the elfutils ar.
> It's pretty much not used by anyone, so I wouldn't bet too much on
> it having been tested enough to rely on.

I just do a "make install" in the bootstrap script, which I thought
resulted in an "ar" binary getting installed (as opposed to eu-ar). It
seems Fedora confines the list of files installed to:

%{_bindir}/eu-addr2line
%{_bindir}/eu-ar
%{_bindir}/eu-elfcmp
%{_bindir}/eu-elflint
%{_bindir}/eu-findtextrel
%{_bindir}/eu-nm
%{_bindir}/eu-objdump
%{_bindir}/eu-ranlib
%{_bindir}/eu-readelf
%{_bindir}/eu-size
%{_bindir}/eu-strings
%{_bindir}/eu-strip
#%%{_bindir}/eu-ld
%{_bindir}/eu-unstrip
%{_bindir}/eu-make-debug-archive

Can you let me know which of the elfutils actually matter to use for
bootstrap? i.e. if there's a binutils version of the same name for any
given utility, why not just use the binutils version?

Thanks!

Jon.

P.S. Hope life is treating you well :)