Bug 843019

Summary:	elfutils reject 64-bit ar archives because of the unsupported special entry /SYM64/
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Petr Machata <pmachata>
Component:	elfutils	Assignee:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dan, fche, mjw, mnewsome, pmachata, roland
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Description Petr Machata 2012-07-25 10:33:15 UTC

elfutils don't support 64-bit ar archives.
This is exhibited by taking any ar archive from recent s390 distribution and trying to e.g. readelf it.

See this for more information:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835877#c11

Comment 1 Petr Machata 2012-08-01 23:47:16 UTC

I sent a proposed patch implementing this feature to upstream mailing list:
  https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2012-August/002426.html
  https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2012-August/002427.html
  https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2012-August/002428.html

Comment 2 Petr Machata 2012-08-14 16:25:40 UTC

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4389595
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4389863