On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 20:53 +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
This is a request to have a elfutils early release. Number of patches have been pushed on top of last release ( in July) https://fedorahosted.org/releases/e/l/elfutils/0.156/
I guess it makes sense to release early and release often. I was hoping to get some more stuff in (unwinder and arm64 backend) before the next release. But those will probably take some time to polish. Having a quick release now with what we have might be a good idea. I did already backport the cfi_abi patches for arm, ppc and s390 to the fedora elfutils package. Having a new release would help other distros not wanting to do backports. And maybe the systemtap hackers would also like to see a quick release with the dwarf_getfuncs () fixes so they can just point at a newer elfutils version instead of having to add workarounds to their own code.
Lets see what we have at the end of the week. And aim for a 0.157 release next week after running tests on various systems.
Cheers,
Mark