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Re: libdw not functioning after rebuild


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:02:10PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> A libebl.a build is directly tied to the backends from the same build.
> So the src/ utilities that use libebl.a directly won't be happy until
> you relink them against a rebuilt libebl.a that matches the backends.
> See MODVERSION on config.h and where libebl/eblopenbackend.c uses it.
> 
> We do this because libebl and the backends are not stable ABIs (or even APIs).
> Only programs that are part of the elfutils build really use libebl.a directly.

I'm not providing a libebl.a in a package, so I don't have to
worry about other users of that, I just need to create more tight
depedencies between the packages I'm providing.

Thanks for the explanation.


Kurt


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