[Openmcl-devel] libelf version.

[David Brown]

On Thu, Jan 20 2011, Gary Byers wrote:

> IIRC, one of the libelf/elfutils packages was developed by RedHat and
> is the only one distributed with Fedora; the oprofile stuff in CCL and
> the ELF interfaces it uses were based on that.  That particular
> package has a current version number around 0.147.
>
> In at least some distributions, installing that package will install
> libelf.so.VERSION somewhere; it's necessary to install the corresponding
> -dev package to get a link to that file installed as libelf.so.

For Ubuntu 10.10, libelf-dev and libelf1 seem to be the right
combination.

In Gentoo, it's elfutils, and not libelf.

Thanks,
David