Bug 435425

Summary: compilation of prelink failed on i386 and ppc
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <fedoraproject>
Component: prelinkAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus 2008-02-29 09:29:32 UTC 
Description of problem:
I cannot build prelink from source rpm. After executing rpmbuild -bb --clean
prelink.spec I get the following error:

checking libelf.h usability... no
checking libelf.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: libelf.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: libelf.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: libelf.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-autoconf. ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
checking for libelf.h... yes
checking gelf.h usability... no
checking gelf.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: gelf.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: gelf.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: gelf.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-autoconf. ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
checking for gelf.h... yes
checking for elf_begin in -lelf... yes
checking for gelf_getvernaux... yes
checking whether FTW_ACTIONRETVAL is supported... yes
checking for is_selinux_enabled in -lselinux... yes
checking selinux/selinux.h usability... yes
checking selinux/selinux.h presence... yes
checking for selinux/selinux.h... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
configure: error: libelf does not properly convert Elf64_Sxword quantities.
If you are using libelf-0.7.0, please use patches/libelf-0.7.0.patch.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84088 (%build)

Are there some dependencies missing? I tried it on i386 and ppc Fedora 8.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.4.0-1

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
rpmbuild -bb --clean prelink.spec
Comment 1 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus 2008-03-01 12:02:58 UTC 
The problem was solved in the elfutils package version 0.132 (which is in
testing/rawhide). So it wasn't a direct problem of prelink. For reference see
this post:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2008-01/msg02960.html