Fedora 12 Update: elfutils-0.145-1.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-2944
2010-02-26 02:25:40
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.145
Release     : 1.fc12
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/
Summary     : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects
Description :
Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker),
nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the
section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding
symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint
(to check for well-formed ELF files).

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Update Information:

This update fixes several bugs in elfutils libraries and tools, including one
that could cause tools to crash when processing core files.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 23 2010 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.145-1
- Update to 0.145
  - Fix build with --disable-dependency-tracking. (#564646)
  - Fix build with most recent glibc headers.
  - libdw: Fix CFI decoding. (#563528)
  - libdwfl: Fix address bias returned by CFI accessors. (#563528)
             Fix core file module layout identification. (#559836)
  - readelf: Fix CFI decoding.
* Fri Jan 15 2010 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.144-2
- Fix sloppy #include's breaking build with F-13 glibc.
* Thu Jan 14 2010 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.144-1
- Update to 0.144
  - libdw: New function dwarf_aggregate_size for computing (constant) type
           sizes, including array_type cases with nontrivial calculation.
  - readelf: Don't give errors for missing info under -a.
             Handle Linux "VMCOREINFO" notes under -n.
- Resolves: RHBZ #527004, RHBZ #530704, RHBZ #550858
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #564646 - FTBFS elfutils-0.144-2.fc13
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564646
  [ 2 ] Bug #563528 - elfutils cfi reading bugs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563528
  [ 3 ] Bug #559836 - [abrt] crash in elfutils-0.144-1.fc12
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559836
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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