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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-10528
2010-06-29 15:12:05
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Name : elfutils
Product : Fedora 13
Version : 0.148
Release : 1.fc13
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 some problems in core file handling, including core files
generated by PIE binaries. It also adds support for DWARF 4 format features to
libdw and eu-readelf, including some new libdw interfaces for accessing new
DWARF details.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Jun 28 2010 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> - 0.148-1
- Update to 0.148
- libdw: Accept DWARF 4 format: new functions dwarf_next_unit,
dwarf_offdie_types.
New functions dwarf_lineisa, dwarf_linediscriminator,
dwarf_lineop_index.
- libdwfl: Fixes in core-file handling, support cores from PIEs. (#588818)
When working from build IDs, don't open a named file
that mismatches.
- readelf: Handle DWARF 4 formats.
* Mon May 3 2010 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> - 0.147-1
- Update to 0.147
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #588818 - core file module detection confused by core from a PIE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588818
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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