Hi Mahesh, >> On my machine (RHEL5 x86_64), I cannot compile makedumpfile with this patch. >> I guess that it is due to old elfutils of my machine, and I am trying this >> problem by newer elfutils. >> >> I'd like to get some hints, so can you tell me your environment ? >> RHEL6 x86_64 ? > > Yes, I had tested these patches on RHEL6.0 and RHEl6.1 x86_64. As far as > I know RHEL6.0 had elfutils-0.148. OK, Thanks. > I did not try my patches on RHEL5 x86-64. Let me see if I can get a > RHEL5 x86_64 box to verify. > > But in case we can not fix the compilation with RHEL5 environment, do > you think we can go with one of following options: > > 1. When compiled with older elfutils library, build makedumpfile without > this feature enabled. > 2. Make newer elfutils vesion as pre-requisite for future makedumpfile > releases. > > What do you think? That is a good question. I think option 2 is better, because option 1 stops the enhancement. On current README file, makedumpfile needs elfutils-0.125 or latter, and it should be changed to newer. Anyway, I will be digging more for compling it on most envrionments. Thanks Ken'ichi Ohmichi
