From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53325) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ixZaN-0007vj-Ri for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:56:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ixZaM-0002pw-JB for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:56:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ixZaM-0002pq-Fj for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:56:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ixZaM-0005wM-Cv for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:56:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#38803] [PATCH] gnu: elfutils: Update to 0.178 Resent-Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:55:05 +0100 From: Mark Wielaard Message-ID: <20200131165505.GN3319@wildebeest.org> References: <20191230014101.2425-1-mark@klomp.org> <20200112203939.20141-1-mark@klomp.org> <87a76sxun7.fsf@devup.no> <20200113000345.GA2825@wildebeest.org> <87a76rvvpz.fsf@devup.no> <20200131124321.GM3319@wildebeest.org> <87v9ormxrb.fsf@devup.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="WhfpMioaduB5tiZL" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87v9ormxrb.fsf@devup.no> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Marius Bakke Cc: Brett Gilio , 38803@debbugs.gnu.org --WhfpMioaduB5tiZL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 04:49:44PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Mark Wielaard writes: > > >> Also, for the description, please use full sentences. I.e. keep the > >> 'This package provides a collection ...' and 'This includes ...' instead > >> of 'A collection ...' and 'Includes ...'. > > > > OK. Done. See attached patch. > > Sorry for the nit-picks, but the description still starts > 'mid-sentence', i.e. "A collection ..." instead of "elfutils is a > collection ...". > > If you think it's better this way I'm fine with that, it's just that > elfutils will "stand out" compared to its neighbours at > e.g. . :-) OK, OK. Lets see if I can at least get the patch that does only update the descriptions correct. New version attached. Cheers, Mark --WhfpMioaduB5tiZL Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="0001-gnu-elfutils-Update-synopsis-and-description.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >From 6a9f7efd89f6617766640b3e2f7a232977bf98a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Wielaard Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:54:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: elfutils: Update synopsis and description * gnu/packages/elf.scm (elfutils): Update summaries. [synopsis]: Updated. [description]: Updated. --- 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 75caa54296..22d03fba84 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/elf.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/elf.scm @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2017 Leo Famulari ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; Copyright © 2018 Marius Bakke +;;; Copyright © 2020 Mark Wielaard ;;; ;;; 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 proAvides (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+))) -- 2.24.1 --WhfpMioaduB5tiZL--