[lsb-discuss] LSB and SELinux

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Thu Nov 29 08:46:05 PST 2007


>>>> I don't seem to have an up-to-date enough Linux running (SLES10)
>>>> to have eu-readelf and the other tools that that page talks about.
>>> Just use readelf, not sure what eu-readelf is either, but readelf
>>> will give you the information.
>> readelf comes from binutils, eu-readelf comes from elfutils,
>> which contain Ulrich's reimplementation of a lot of the ELF
>> code.  The stuff in binutils is of, ummm, dubious quality but
>> has to be carried because binutils has a target of working
>> "everywhere", while elfutils is free to concentrate on just
>> Linux.   Not sure how widespread distro uptake of elfutils is -
>> I just haven't checked; it's clearly there in Redhat/Fedora.
> 
> Thanks. We're strictly interested in enterprise distributions:
> when you want to keep a build platform fairly stable for a couple
> of years at a time, Fedora is not what's required.

I was just answering the "not sure what eu-readelf is" question.
And by Redhat I meant RHEL, afaict it's been around since RHEL3.




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