Fedora 9 Update: elfutils-0.140-1.fc9

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1820
2009-02-17 14:51:54
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.140
Release     : 1.fc9
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/
Summary     : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects
Description :
Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker),
nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the
section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding
symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint
(to check for well-formed ELF files).

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Update Information:

This update fixes various minor bugs in elfutils libraries and tools.  It also
adds support for automatic gzip or bzip2 decompression of ELF files to libdwfl
and the tools that use it.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Feb 15 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.140-1
- Update to 0.140
  - libelf: Fix regression in creation of section header. (#484946)
* Fri Jan 23 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.139-1
- Update to 0.139
  - libcpu: Add Intel SSE4 disassembler support
  - readelf: Implement call frame information and exception handling dumping.
    	     Add -e option.  Enable it implicitly for -a.
  - elflint: Check PT_GNU_EH_FRAME program header entry.
  - libdwfl: Support automatic gzip/bzip2 decompression of ELF files. (#472136)
* Thu Jan  1 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.138-2
- Fix libelf regression.
* Wed Dec 31 2008 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.138-1
- Update to 0.138
  - Install <elfutils/version.h> header file for applications to use in
    source version compatibility checks.
  - libebl: backend fixes for i386 TLS relocs; backend support for NT_386_IOPERM
  - libcpu: disassembler fixes (#469739)
  - libdwfl: bug fixes (#465878)
  - libelf: bug fixes
  - eu-nm: bug fixes for handling corrupt input files (#476136)
* Wed Oct  1 2008 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.137-3
- fix libdwfl regression (#462689)
* Thu Aug 28 2008 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.137-2
- Update to 0.137
  - libdwfl: bug fixes; new segment interfaces;
             all the libdwfl-based tools now support --core=COREFILE option
- Resolves: RHBZ #325021, RHBZ #447416
* Mon Jul  7 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> - 0.135-2
- fix conditional comparison
* Mon May 12 2008 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.135-1
- Update to 0.135
  - libdwfl: bug fixes
  - eu-strip: changed handling of ET_REL files wrt symbol tables and relocs
* Wed Apr  9 2008 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 0.134-1
- Update to 0.134
  - elflint: backend improvements for sparc, alpha (#204170)
  - libdwfl, libelf: bug fixes (#439344, #438867, #438263, #438190)
- Remove Conflicts: libelf-devel from elfutils-libelf-devel. (#435742)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #476136 - Various SEGVs and ABRTs on binutils testcases
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476136
  [ 2 ] Bug #465878 - crash on processing empty archive
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465878
  [ 3 ] Bug #472136 - RFE: handle compressed kernel object files for systemtap-style offline searches
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472136
  [ 4 ] Bug #469739 - eu-objdump: Assertion failed while disassembling libavcodec.so.52
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469739
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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