8.50. Libelf from Elfutils-0.194

8.50.1. Installation of Libelf

Libelf is part of the elfutils-0.194 package. Use the elfutils-0.194.tar.bz2 file as the source tarball.

Prepare Libelf for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --disable-debuginfod \
            --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy

Compile only Libelf:

make -C lib
make -C libelf

To test the results, issue:

make -k check

The above command builds the utilities part of the package as well as the unit tests. Two tests are known to fail: dwarf_srclang_check and run-backtrace-native-core.sh.

Install only Libelf:

make -C libelf install
install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig
rm /usr/lib/libelf.a