Bug 76732

Summary:	libelf-devel should be prerequisite for rpm-4.2.0-4.src.rpm
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Ken MacFarlane <ksm>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Ken MacFarlane 2002-10-25 16:27:21 UTC

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Description of problem:
The source rebuild of rpm fails if libelf-devel is not present.  Specifically,
build fails trying to find files libelf/libelf.h and libelf/gelf.h.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e libelf-devel
2. rpmbuild --rebuild rpm-4.2-0.4.src.rpm

	

Actual Results:  creating rpmcache
source='striptofile.c' object='striptofile.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/striptofile.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/striptofile.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../build -I../lib -I../rpmdb -I../rp
mio -I../popt -I../elfutils/libelf -I../elfutils/libdwarf -I../zlib -I../zlib -I
../misc    -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -c `test
-f 'striptofile.c' || echo './'`striptofile.c
striptofile.c:4:27: libelf/libelf.h: No such file or directory
striptofile.c:5:25: libelf/gelf.h: No such file or directory
In file included from striptofile.c:8:
sections.h:4:25: libelf/gelf.h: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  rpmbuild completes successfully.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-25 16:39:05 UTC

libelf-devel is not a build prereq because
rpm has an internal copy of elfutils in rpm-4.2
that will be used. No, libelf-devel is not adequate.

The rationale for this apparent bloat is that
the gelf API used by rpm (to preserve MD5 checks for
prelinked DSO's, and to generate dependencies) is not
(yet) widely available, prereq's will be added if/when
that time comes.