staging/xback/tools/elfutils, branch master

tools/elfutils: fix the build on macOS

2026-10-08T07:50:39Z

The DEFAULT_INCLUDES override adds -I. to the src directory. There, upstream deliberately clears DEFAULT_INCLUDES: with libc++, includes , which then resolves to the stack binary in src. Leave out -I. for the src directory. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau

tools/elfutils: update to 0.196

2026-09-29T07:27:40Z

To reduce the size of the downloaded source files, the version of tools library has been aligned with the version used in the packages. Release notes: https://inbox.sourceware.org/elfutils-devel/CAJDtP-QXj15OOpBxLdU+V1PZKM8YmnsE1eVy-R2R5xbE7Shk5A@mail.gmail.com/T/#u Manually rebased patches: - 012-backport-mips-support-readelf.patch - 100-portability.patch Removed patches: - 001-fix-backport-iquote-include.patch - fixed in [1] - 110-objects-manifest.patch - upstreamed Include new submodule 'libdwfl_stacktrace' in makefile. Changes from 8f920d2 are rolled back after fix [1] 1. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33103 Fixes: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/8f920d2f94b0878e9b4291ffa18cfc9e02828f77 Signed-off-by: Ivan Pavlov Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/25388 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools: cache the configure results of ten autotools tools

2026-09-22T16:18:58Z

These ten hold up the wall clock on their own. Their configure stages run while nothing else does, because the tools build in dependency order. Measured over a full build, cold cache against warm: sed 21.68 s -> 1.22 s m4 21.48 s -> 1.22 s findutils 19.47 s -> 1.56 s tar 17.75 s -> 1.47 s cpio 14.28 s -> 1.26 s bison 12.81 s -> 1.29 s patch 12.16 s -> 1.31 s elfutils 26.58 s -> 15.47 s Each of the ten configures the same way with a warm cache as it does without one. The check runs configure three times, without a cache, with a cold cache and with a warm cache, and compares every file that configure generates between the first and the last. ncurses fails that check; these do not. The only difference left is ac_ct_AR and ac_ct_RANLIB, which a cold run fills through the fallback path of AC_CHECK_TOOL and a warm run leaves empty. AR and RANLIB are correct in both, and no generated Makefile reads the ac_ct_ form. tools/cmake keeps its 33 s, the longest configure stage in the build. It bootstraps with its own script rather than autoconf, so this does not reach it. Signed-off-by: John Crispin

tools: elfutils: fix uio header inclusion

2026-08-04T07:17:53Z

Fixes arm64 build failures by replacing with POSIX to avoid header redefinition conflicts. gnulib's fcntl.h ends up including glibc's fcntl.h and fcntl-linux.h which includes glibc's types/struct_iovec.h, thats where the redefinition happens. the lines that use are antiquated and were never necessary. it can be traced back to the original 2014 change that added the file with aarch64 support in upstream commit 66637fa21044ac0058b25522f473669e73de328b it was never necessary to use the linux header over the glibc headers, as elfutils only needs the iovec struct and that struct was present since glibc 2.0 in the 1990s Signed-off-by: Paweł Owoc Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/24539 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/elfutils: enable parallel building

2025-07-26T12:38:09Z

There are multiple subdirectories for elfutils and more than one is not dependent on another, so enabling parallel building can save time if multiple cores are available. The change in build time for the package is as much as 20% when cores are not in use by other jobs. Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/elfutils: update to 0.192

2025-07-26T12:38:09Z

Update to the next release. Removed upstream patch: - 000-backport-iquote-include.patch - 010-backport-mips-support-reloc.patch - 014-backport-mips-support-stack.patch - 015-backport-mips-support-regs.patch - 095-src-unused-variable.patch - 096-lib-config_h.patch - 097-libcpu-config_h.patch - 098-libdw-maintainer-clean.patch - 099-remove-unlocked-stdio.patch Manually adjusted patch: - 012-backport-mips-support-readelf.patch - 013-backport-mips-support-elflint.patch - 101-shared-conditional.patch All other patches are automatically refreshed. Link: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2024q4/007540.html Tested-by: Georgi Valkov # macOS Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/elfutils: update MIPS support patches

2025-07-26T12:38:08Z

The original patch series partially added by commit f97da2c61 ("tools/elfutils: add missing MIPS reloc support") now has a v3 which has half of it's commits accepted. To prepare for updating to the new release, use the new series that includes backports. Manually adjusted patch: - 010-backport-mips-support-reloc.patch Add patch: - 011-backport-mips-support-strip.patch - 012-backport-mips-support-readelf.patch - 013-backport-mips-support-elflint.patch - 014-backport-mips-support-stack.patch - 015-backport-mips-support-regs.patch Tested-by: Tony Ambardar Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/elfutils: add maintainer-clean to clean target

2025-07-26T12:38:08Z

Use the clean recipe during build, so that files already generated by the bootstrapping within the release are removed before the bootstrap script is run again. Automake with modified rules must be ran in order to generate a Makefile that does delete itself or libtool. In order to enable rules for building what is removed, maintainer mode is required for configuring. Building from tracked sources only with maintainer mode requires a lexical analyzer, so add dependency for bison. Override an automake variable "am__CONFIG_DISTCLEAN_FILES" in order to prevent removing config.status and other configure files so that configure stage does not need to be ran twice. The function obstack_printf() is not present on macOS, so use the available gnulib module and their dependencies. Many more modules from gnulib are now needed, and some replacements of some functions must be skipped to prevent build errors at link time. Tested-by: Georgi Valkov # macOS Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/elfutils: backport version 0.192 portability patches

2025-07-26T12:38:08Z

These patches will be present in version 0.192 release. Include them before the update to support changes before updating and in order to have a more organized git history. Manually refreshed patch: - 110-objects-manifest.patch Add patch: - 095-src-unused-variable.patch - 096-lib-config_h.patch - 097-libcpu-config_h.patch - 098-libdw-maintainer-clean.patch - 099-remove-unlocked-stdio.patch Tested-by: Georgi Valkov # macOS Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/elfutils: replace dependency hack with upstream include path fix

2025-07-26T12:38:08Z

In order to solve the problem of the possibility that the "stack" binary is incorrectly included as a header while the compiler looks for the standard C++ header "stack", a workaround forcing a dependency between building "stack" and the C++ program was introduced. This upstream fix uses the compiler "-iquote" option in order to avoid looking for standard headers in the current working directory and blocks the default inclusion of "-I ." to the compiler flags. The upstream fix happens to be incomplete, so add an extra patch to fix an additional instance and then remove the workaround. Also, adjust the way DEFAULT_INCLUDES is overridden in the build Makefile by using the "-iquote" option in the same manner in order to remove all instances of the default inclusion for the current directory. Tested-by: Georgi Valkov # macOS Signed-off-by: Michael Pratt Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16522 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko