Hello Kurt, Le dimanche 23 décembre 2007 à 13:23 +0100, Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > > is there any reason why elfutils does not provide shared libraries > > for libdw and libebl? > > > > Would it be possible to provide shared libraries for libdw and libebl? > > Libdw's API/ABI is in my opinion not stable enough to be put in a shared > library. > > libebl is not provided shared upstream and is alot worse when it comes > to API/ABI changes.
Okay, thanks for the explanation. > Please also see my reply in #455878. > > I hope your package is not directly making use of libebl but really > only uses libdw. Once systemtap does not need (it's headers) anymore, > I intend change in such a way that you can't use it's headers anymore, > probably by merging the whole thing in libdw. I've just checked: it does not directly use libebl. I will try to build dwarves using static libs only, and we'll see if binaries grow a lot or not. Regards, Thomas
