8.58. Libelf from Elfutils-0.192

8.58.1. Installation of Libelf

Libelf is part of the elfutils-0.192 package. Use the elfutils-0.192.tar.bz2 file as the source tarball.

Create the PKGBUILD for the Libelf package with the following commands:

mkdir /sources/libelf
cd /sources/libelf
cat > PKGBUILD << "REALEOF"
# Maintainer: Linux From Scratch <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org>

pkgname="libelf"
pkgver="0.192"
pkgrel="1"
pkgdesc="Libelf is a library for handling ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files."
arch=('x86'
      'x86_64')
url="https://sourceware.org/elfutils/"
license=('GPLv2'
         'GPLv3'
         'LGPLv3')
groups=('core')
depends=('bzip2'
         'glibc'
         'xz'
         'zlib'
         'zstd')
makedepends=('bash'
             'binutils'
             'coreutils'
             'gcc'
             'make')
checkdepends=('iproute2')
source=('https://sourceware.org/ftp/elfutils/0.192/elfutils-0.192.tar.bz2')
md5sums=('a6bb1efc147302cfc15b5c2b827f186a')
 
build(){
  cd ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
  ./configure --prefix=/usr                \
              --disable-debuginfod         \
              --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy
  make
}

check(){
  cd ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
  make check
}

package(){
  cd ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
  # Install only libelf
  make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} -C libelf install
  install -vm644 config/libelf.pc ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/pkgconfig
  rm ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libelf.a
}
REALEOF

Prepare the build directory for the pacman user and build the package:

chown -R root:pacman .
chmod 2775 .
chmod 664 PKGBUILD
su pacman -c 'makepkg -L --nodeps'

Add the newly created package to the central package repository:

cp elfutils-0.192-1-$(uname -m).pkg.tar.xz \
   /srv/pacman/repos/LFS/
repo-add /srv/pacman/repos/LFS/LFS.db.tar.xz \
         /srv/pacman/repos/LFS/elfutils-0.192-1-$(uname -m).pkg.tar.xz

Update the local cache and install the Libelf package:

pacman -Syu
pacman -S libelf --overwrite \* -dd --noconfirm

Finally, copy the source files into the source repository and clean up the build directory:

mkdir /srv/pacman/source/LFS/libelf
cp PKGBUILD /srv/pacman/source/LFS/libelf
cd /sources
rm -rf libelf