From: Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 13:44:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Clarify how/why we look for binutils's readelf
X-Git-Tag: v0.21~10
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=84bc3f98d74726342e55f81021b610324d38dfbf;p=pyelftools.git

Clarify how/why we look for binutils's readelf
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diff --git a/test/run_readelf_tests.py b/test/run_readelf_tests.py
index 25a97c9..d910123 100755
--- a/test/run_readelf_tests.py
+++ b/test/run_readelf_tests.py
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ testlog.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 testlog.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout))
 
 # Set the path for calling readelf. By default this is the system readelf.
+# The first assignment to READELF_PATH reflects the binutils version I used
+# to test the current pyelftools with.
+# Alas, binutils's readelf changes its output slightly even between minor
+# releases so a lot of bogus differences can occur; this is why an exact version
+# is specified to reproduce the tests.
 #
 READELF_PATH = '/home/eliben/test/binutils-2.23.52/binutils/readelf'
 if not os.path.exists(READELF_PATH):