Libelf from Elfutils-0.185

Reference: 8.47. Libelf from Elfutils-0.185. The package is known to NOT work well with musl. First fix the build system:

patch -Np1 -i elfutils-0.185-bld-20220207.patch

There are some more libraries required to buld elfutils with musl. First libuargp is required. This package doesn't have a configure, thus edit the  Makefile  and change the install directories. Build and install it:

CC=gcc make
make install

This installs the header file  argp.h , the static library  libargp.a  and the shared library  libargp.so .

Second install libfts:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/qlnx/lib/pkgconfig ./bootstrap.sh
./configure --prefix=/qlnx --includedir=/qlnx/inc
make
make install

This installs the header file  fts.h  and several  libfts.*  library files.

Next get libobstack. If the  bootstrap.sh  breaks with an error like “pkgconfig_DATA”, then edit  Makefile.am  and comment out the related line. Build and install it:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/qlnx/lib/pkgconfig ./bootstrap.sh
make
make install

This installs  obstack.h  and several  libobstack.*  library files.

Last apply a patch to fix a missing header file¹⁾) and to build the libelf only:

patch -Np1 -i elfutils-0.185-src-20220207.patch

Configure it:

./configure --prefix=/qlnx \
            --disable-debuginfod \
            --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy \
            --includedir=/qlnx/inc

With the compilation of libelf only the debug parameter to  configure  are maybe not required (not tested).

Build and install it (libelf only):

make
make -C libelf install

To get this work was taken round about 1,5 days!