Fedora 9 Update: elfutils-0.137-3.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7460
2008-11-13 02:38:14
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.137
Release     : 3.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.  It adds the --core
option to various tools such as eu-addr2line, for looking up symbolic
information associated with a core dump.
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #268961 - elfutils 129 ignores a local symbol within a global
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=268961
  [ 2 ] Bug #452194 - elfutils incorrectly reports assembler symbols
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452194
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line.
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