[fedora-arm] elfutils build problem with ARM bootstrap

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 18:03 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 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.

I just pushed an updated build with this corrected. Thanks for your time
anyway, Roland. We now have, e.g. /usr/bin/eu-ar in our bootstrap.

Jon.