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08/16: gnu: elfutils: Update synopsis and description
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08/16: gnu: elfutils: Update synopsis and description |
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Wed, 5 Feb 2020 16:07:59 -0500 (EST) |
mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit e5fcff3190efec8a29f0c17b9c69793062f3c927
Author: Mark Wielaard <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Sun Jan 12 23:54:18 2020 +0100
gnu: elfutils: Update synopsis and description
* gnu/packages/elf.scm (elfutils): Update summaries.
[synopsis]: Updated.
[description]: Updated.
Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
---
gnu/packages/elf.scm | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/elf.scm b/gnu/packages/elf.scm
index 75caa54..5fa6621 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/elf.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/elf.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2017 Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Mark Wielaard <address@hidden>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -54,9 +55,10 @@
(build-system gnu-build-system)
;; Separate programs because that's usually not what elfutils users want,
- ;; and because they duplicate what Binutils provides.
+ ;; and because they duplicate what Binutils provides (but are named
+ ;; differently, using the eu- prefix and can be installed in parallel).
(outputs '("out" ; libelf.so, elfutils/*.h, etc.
- "bin")) ; ld, nm, objdump, etc.
+ "bin")) ; eu-nm, eu-objdump, etc.
(arguments
;; Programs don't have libelf.so in their RUNPATH and libraries don't
@@ -84,11 +86,21 @@
(native-inputs `(("m4" ,m4)))
(inputs `(("zlib" ,zlib)))
(home-page "https://sourceware.org/elfutils/")
- (synopsis "Linker and ELF manipulation tools")
+ (synopsis "Collection of utilities and libraries to handle ELF files and
+DWARF data")
(description
- "This package provides command-line tools to manipulate binaries in the
-Executable and Linkable Format (@dfn{ELF}). This includes @command{ld},
-@command{ar}, @command{objdump}, @command{addr2line}, and more.")
+ "Elfutils is a collection of utilities and libraries to read, create and
+modify Executable and Linkable Format (@dfn{ELF}) binary files, find and
+handle Debugging With Arbitrary Record Formats (@dfn{DWARF}) debug data,
+symbols, thread state and stacktraces for processes and core files on
+GNU/Linux. Elfutils includes @file{libelf} for manipulating ELF files,
+@file{libdw} for inspecting DWARF data and process state and utilities like
+@command{eu-stack} (to show backtraces), @command{eu-nm} (for listing symbols
+from object files), @command{eu-size} (for listing the section sizes of an
+object or archive file), @command{eu-strip} (for discarding symbols),
+@command{eu-readelf} (to see the raw ELF file structures),
+@command{eu-elflint} (to check for well-formed ELF files),
+@command{eu-elfcompress} (to compress or decompress ELF sections), and more.")
;; Libraries are dual-licensed LGPLv3.0+ | GPLv2, and programs are GPLv3+.
(license lgpl3+)))
- branch master updated (ea9cc4e -> 9d0dfd9), guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 02/16: gnu: varnish: Update to 6.3.2., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 03/16: gnu: libcdr: Update to 0.1.6., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 05/16: gnu: libmtp: Remove unnecessary propagation., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 04/16: gnu: lftp: Update to 4.9.1., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 01/16: gnu: ppp: Update to 2.4.8., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 07/16: gnu: libmtp: Update to 1.1.17., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 06/16: gnu: libmtp: Do not build the static library., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 09/16: gnu: zrythm: Update to 0.7.474., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 08/16: gnu: elfutils: Update synopsis and description,
guix-commits <=
- 10/16: gnu: gpodder: Update to 3.10.13., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 12/16: gnu: lxqt-config: Fixing keyboard layout., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 11/16: gnu: streamlink: Update to 1.3.1., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 13/16: gnu: python-tomlkit: Update to 0.5.8., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 14/16: gnu: python-clikit: Update to 0.4.1., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 16/16: import: pypi: Support exporting packages with .zip source., guix-commits, 2020/02/05
- 15/16: gnu: python-cleo: Update to 0.7.6., guix-commits, 2020/02/05