8.50. Libelf from Elfutils-0.193

Libelf is a library for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files.

Approximate build time: 0.3 SBU

Required disk space: 156 MB

8.50.1. Installation of Libelf

Libelf is part of the elfutils-0.193 package. Use the elfutils-0.193.tar.bz2 file as the source tarball.

Prepare Libelf for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --disable-debuginfod \
            --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy

Compile the package:

make

To test the results, issue:

make -k check

Two tests are known to fail, dwarf_srclang_check and run-backtrace-native-core.sh.

Install only Libelf:

make -C libelf install
install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig
rm /usr/lib/libelf.a

Installed library: libelf.so

Installed directory: /usr/include/elfutils

libelf.so

Contains API functions to handle ELF object files