ELFUTILS / Embedded configuration

2020-10-12 Thread Maurice Smulders via Elfutils-devel
The current configuration (using buildroot) builds elfutils for lots of architectures. This is for using minicoredumper on - in our case - a powerpc platform: safe:/usr/lib/elfutils> ls libebl_aarch64-0.177.so libebl_i386.so libebl_s390-0.177.so libebl_aarch64.solibebl_ia64-0.17

Re: ELFUTILS / Embedded configuration

2020-10-12 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler via Elfutils-devel
Hi - > The current configuration (using buildroot) builds elfutils for lots > of architectures. [...] libebl is a small part of elfutils, and in recent versions all those distinct files have been simply linked into -ldw. They're very small, so we didn't bother make them individually configurable

Re: ELFUTILS / Embedded configuration

2020-10-12 Thread Maurice Smulders via Elfutils-devel
Frank, Thanks for the fast response. While each module is about 64k, in total they take up ~1.1MB, so for embedded systems - which - in our application if we'd need to update over a lossy link no faster than about 160k baud is a lot of extra stuff. Can I just remove the library files not appropri

Re: ELFUTILS / Embedded configuration

2020-10-12 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler via Elfutils-devel
Hi - > While each module is about 64k, in total they take up ~1.1MB [...] I wonder how you're calculating that. Here on a relatively fresh elfutils build tree, backends/*.os totals about 135 KB of .text and 20 KB of .data. > [...] Can I just remove the library files not appropriate for the > a