[fedora-arm] elfutils build problem with ARM bootstrap

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 17:55 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> 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?

I see that I was missing this tidbit from the SPEC file:

%global _program_prefix eu-

That explains a lot and I'll take care of it in the bootstrap. Also,
though, I'm still interested to know why we'd want e.g. elfutils ar.

Thanks,

Jon.