diff --git a/README.elfutils b/README.elfutils index cc284a0..730d93a 100644 --- a/README.elfutils +++ b/README.elfutils @@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ If you are interested in the elfutils code in general or for any purpose other than developing Systemtap, please see http://fedora.redhat.com/ about getting involved with Fedora Core Development directly. +To use the elfutils libraries to build Systemtap, you can either use +installed libraries, or you can build elfutils from source as part of the +systemtap build. To use installed libraries, you'll need to have the +current elfutils version installed on your system where the compiler will +find it with whatever build flags you pass systemtap's configure script. +Unless your system already has the current elfutils installed +(i.e. Rawhide), you'll have to install a nonstandard build either via RPM +or by hand with "make" as detailed below. To build the elfutils source +locally as part of the systemtap build, see systemtap's README about the +--with-elfutils=... option to systemtap's configure. + You can find the rawhide rpms updated daily on a variety of sites (see http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html) under core/development. What's distributed in this directory is made trivially from those same sources. @@ -61,5 +72,5 @@ available here has to be applied before you can compile on an older system: (That of course installs things under /usr/local, unlike the RPMs.) -Caveat emptor. Carpe noctem. Eatsom carpnow. +Caveat emptor. Carpe noctem. Reply to .