Failure to find static binutils ArchLinux binutils 2.25.1

[archey]

We are working on building this tool into the archassault repo, to bring in the barf-project. Now per upstream Arch binutils is built statically, as /usr/include/bfd.h and /usr/include/dis-asm.h exist, however the setup.py is failing to see it.

python2 setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
[+] Using binutils headers at:
[+] /usr/include
[+] Searching binutils libraries...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 431, in main
"Topic :: Utilities"
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 127, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 337, in run
self.build_extensions()
File "setup.py", line 320, in build_extensions
raise Exception("unable to find binutils libraries.")
Exception: unable to find binutils libraries.
[-] Error : unable to find binutils libraries.

find /usr/include -type f -name bfd.h -print -or -name dis-asm.h -print
/usr/include/dis-asm.h
/usr/include/bfd.h

Name : binutils
Version : 2.25-1
Description : A set of programs to assemble and manipulate binary and object files
Architecture : x86_64

Can you be of any assistance with this?

[alfred-gw]

Do you have multiarch binutils? you may try uninstalling it and try using the regular bfd. Or just try the latest revision, I just add a patch that support multiarch on debian-like distros.

[archey]

yeah I was using the version from pypi, but that its having issues like the git version from your master. Forgive my simpleton but which is the regular bfd?

[archey]

ArchLinux doesnt uses a multiarch-binutils we have a static bintuils built from upstream and /usr/include/bfd.h exists, let me try with the latest git version.

[archey]

Ok I have tried with both the pypi versions 0.1.1 and the git version, it still does not find the bfd.h and dis-asm.h files in /usr/include. I have verified they do exist and are being built statically, I tried to use the --with-static-binutils option as well with both pypi version and git version. Here is a link to the version of binutils and the file list https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/binutils/files/

As you can see the bfd.h dis-asm.h are in /usr/include, please let us know if we can test anything else for you.

[archey]

Any update on this?

[q6r]

@archey The way to fix it either fix the build script to find the right names
or ln -s these files
/usr/lib/libbfd-2....0.so -> /usr/lib/libbfd.so
/usr/lib/libopcodes-2...0.so -> /usr/lib/libopcodes.so
then it'll be able to find them

[archey]

Ok @q6r Ill see what I can do to patch it and fix it