Kernel coredump file access
To compile this package, you'll need the following:
- zlib. You can usually find it in a zlib-devel package.
- lzo. Often found in a lzo-devel package.
- snappy. Often found in a snappy-devel package.
- libzstd. Often found in a libzstd-devel package.
- GNU C Library. Almost any version will do. Other C libraries may also work, but since there is no standard interface for byte-order macros, this may need some porting.
- GCC. The source uses a few construct specific to GCC (such as variable attributes). Porting should be easy, though.
If you want to build kdumpid, you'll also need:
- BFD. Any version with disassemblers for x86, ppc and s390 will do. This usually comes with the distro packaged as binutils-devel or similar.
To create documentation files, you'll need:
- Doxygen. Usually packaged as doxygen.
Once you've got the prerequisites, simply unpack the tarball and run
./configure
make
make install
To generate documentation files, run:
make doxygen-doc
If you updated directly from git, there is no configure script. That's
becuase this script itself is generated by autoconf. To bootstrap this
project from scratch, you will need:
To generate the configure script, run
autoreconf -fi
This repository contains some manually written Python bindings. These are now deprecated in favour of a fresh rewrite using CFFI. See pykdumpfile.
To make a new public release:
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Make sure that the NEWS file is updated with all important changes
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Update the version information:
- configure.ac: update
pkg_version_*macros - src/Makefile.am: libtool versioning (see Libtool info file)
- src/addrxlat/Makefile.am: addrxlat libtool versioning
- configure.ac: update
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Make a new commit ("Prepare release x.y.z")
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Run
make distcheck -
Create a signed tag using
git tag -s -
Upload the tarballs to GitHub and create a new release
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Write an announcement