From e5fcff3190efec8a29f0c17b9c69793062f3c927 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Wielaard Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:54:18 +0100 Subject: gnu: elfutils: Update synopsis and description * gnu/packages/elf.scm (elfutils): Update summaries. [synopsis]: Updated. [description]: Updated. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke --- gnu/packages/elf.scm | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu/packages') diff --git a/gnu/packages/elf.scm b/gnu/packages/elf.scm index 75caa54296..5fa66210db 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 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+))) -- cgit 1.4.1