blog/data/2013-11-24-chrpath-0.14.txt

   1 Title: New chrpath release 0.15
   2 Tags: english, debian, chrpath
   3 Date: 2013-11-24 09:30
   4
   5 <p>After many years break from the package and a vain hope that
   6 development would be continued by someone else, I finally pulled my
   7 acts together this morning and wrapped up a new release of chrpath,
   8 the command line tool to modify the rpath and runpath of already
   9 compiled ELF programs.  The update was triggered by the persistence of
  10 Isha Vishnoi at IBM, which needed a new config.guess file to get
  11 support for the ppc64le architecture (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) he
  12 is working on.  I checked the
  13 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/chrpath">Debian</a>,
  14 <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrpath">Ubuntu</a> and
  15 <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chrpath">Fedora</a>
  16 packages for interesting patches (failed to find the source from
  17 OpenSUSE and Mandriva packages), and found quite a few nice fixes.
  18 These are the release notes:</p>
  19
  20 <p>New in 0.15 released 2013-11-24:</p>
  21
  22 <ul>
  23
  24   <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project to work
  25    with newer architectures.  Thanks to isha vishnoi for the heads
  26    up.</li>
  27
  28   <li>Updated README with current URLs.</li>
  29
  30   <li>Added byteswap fix found in Ubuntu, credited Jeremy Kerr and
  31    Matthias Klose.</li>
  32
  33   <li>Added missing help for -k|--keepgoing option, using patch by
  34    Petr Machata found in Fedora.</li>
  35
  36   <li>Rewrite removal of RPATH/RUNPATH to make sure the entry in
  37    .dynamic is a NULL terminated string.  Based on patch found in
  38    Fedora credited Axel Thimm and Christian Krause.</li>
  39
  40 </ul>
  41
  42 <p>You can
  43 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
  44 new version 0.15 from alioth</a>.  Please let us know via the Alioth
  45 project if something is wrong with the new release.  The test suite
  46 did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
  47 include a testsuite check.</p>