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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/elf.scm | 24 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/elf.scm b/gnu/packages/elf.scm index 75caa54296..5fa66210db 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/elf.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/elf.scm @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2017 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> ;;; Copyright © 2018 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> +;;; Copyright © 2020 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -54,9 +55,10 @@ (build-system gnu-build-system) ;; Separate programs because that's usually not what elfutils users want, - ;; and because they duplicate what Binutils provides. + ;; and because they duplicate what Binutils provides (but are named + ;; differently, using the eu- prefix and can be installed in parallel). (outputs '("out" ; libelf.so, elfutils/*.h, etc. - "bin")) ; ld, nm, objdump, etc. + "bin")) ; eu-nm, eu-objdump, etc. (arguments ;; Programs don't have libelf.so in their RUNPATH and libraries don't @@ -84,11 +86,21 @@ (native-inputs `(("m4" ,m4))) (inputs `(("zlib" ,zlib))) (home-page "https://sourceware.org/elfutils/") - (synopsis "Linker and ELF manipulation tools") + (synopsis "Collection of utilities and libraries to handle ELF files and +DWARF data") (description - "This package provides command-line tools to manipulate binaries in the -Executable and Linkable Format (@dfn{ELF}). This includes @command{ld}, -@command{ar}, @command{objdump}, @command{addr2line}, and more.") + "Elfutils is a collection of utilities and libraries to read, create and +modify Executable and Linkable Format (@dfn{ELF}) binary files, find and +handle Debugging With Arbitrary Record Formats (@dfn{DWARF}) debug data, +symbols, thread state and stacktraces for processes and core files on +GNU/Linux. Elfutils includes @file{libelf} for manipulating ELF files, +@file{libdw} for inspecting DWARF data and process state and utilities like +@command{eu-stack} (to show backtraces), @command{eu-nm} (for listing symbols +from object files), @command{eu-size} (for listing the section sizes of an +object or archive file), @command{eu-strip} (for discarding symbols), +@command{eu-readelf} (to see the raw ELF file structures), +@command{eu-elflint} (to check for well-formed ELF files), +@command{eu-elfcompress} (to compress or decompress ELF sections), and more.") ;; Libraries are dual-licensed LGPLv3.0+ | GPLv2, and programs are GPLv3+. (license lgpl3+))) |