[Rpm-maint] [Suse patch] Make debugedit build without dwarf.h

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed May 23 16:48:57 UTC 2007


Panu Matilainen (pmatilai at redhat.com) said: 
> 
> The ppc logic bug has already been fixed in rpm.org tree.
> 
> As for the dwarf.h part, I'm a bit curious. On RHEL/Fedora the dwarf.h 
> header comes from elfutils(-devel) but that's not present in the 
> elfutils-0.97 version bundled inside Suse rpm as if it was removed from 
> the tarball deliberately. Somebody care to comment what's the deal here?
> 
> I seem to have a vague recollection of some licensing issue wrt elfutils, 
> and indeed 0.97.1 says "0.97 code re-released under GPLv2", is this 
> perhaps somehow related?

elfutils for a while had separate (IIRC) GPL and OSL versions.

Bill



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