upstream: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3004
status: WONTFIX
comment: Use OEs version of the readelf version. There might be no
host system version (e.g. on OSX) or it is not multiarch.

Index: glibc-2.3.2/configure
===================================================================
--- glibc-2.3.2.orig/configure	2006-08-05 20:18:11.000000000 +0200
+++ glibc-2.3.2/configure	2006-08-05 22:09:08.000000000 +0200
@@ -4799,6 +4799,95 @@
     fi
   fi
 
+### XXXX copy and pasted
+# Check for readelf
+# Extract the first word of "$target_alias-readelf", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy $target_alias-readelf; ac_word=$2
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for $ac_word... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+if test "${ac_cv_prog_READELF+set}" = set; then
+  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$READELF"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_READELF="$READELF" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+  for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if { test -f "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" && $as_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; }; then
+    ac_cv_prog_READELF="$target_alias-readelf"
+    echo "$as_me:$LINENO: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+fi
+fi
+READELF=$ac_cv_prog_READELF
+if test -n "$READELF"; then
+  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $READELF" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$READELF" >&6; }
+else
+  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+if test -z "$ac_cv_prog_READELF"; then
+  if test "$build" = "$target"; then
+    ac_ct_READELF=$READELF
+    # Extract the first word of "readelf", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy readelf; ac_word=$2
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for $ac_word" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for $ac_word... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+if test "${ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF+set}" = set; then
+  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$ac_ct_READELF"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF="$ac_ct_READELF" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
+for as_dir in $PATH
+do
+  IFS=$as_save_IFS
+  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
+  for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
+  if { test -f "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" && $as_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; }; then
+    ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF="readelf"
+    echo "$as_me:$LINENO: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
+    break 2
+  fi
+done
+done
+IFS=$as_save_IFS
+
+  test -z "$ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF" && ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF="readelf"
+fi
+fi
+ac_ct_READELF=$ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_READELF
+if test -n "$ac_ct_READELF"; then
+  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_ct_READELF" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_ct_READELF" >&6; }
+else
+  { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+    READELF=ac_ct_READELF
+  else
+    READELF="readelf"
+  fi
+else
+  READELF="$ac_cv_prog_READELF"
+fi
+
+### XXXX copy and pasted
+
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... $ECHO_C" >&6
 if test "${libc_cv_initfinit_array+set}" = set; then
@@ -4818,7 +4907,7 @@
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
   (exit $ac_status); }; }
   then
-    if readelf -S conftest | fgrep INIT_ARRAY > /dev/null; then
+    if $READELF -S conftest | fgrep INIT_ARRAY > /dev/null; then
       libc_cv_initfinit_array=yes
     else
       libc_cv_initfinit_array=no
@@ -4963,7 +5052,7 @@
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
   (exit $ac_status); }; }
   then
-    if readelf -S conftest.so | grep '\.rel\(a\|\)\.dyn' > /dev/null; then
+    if $READELF -S conftest.so | grep '\.rel\(a\|\)\.dyn' > /dev/null; then
       libc_cv_z_combreloc=yes
     else
       libc_cv_z_combreloc=no
Index: glibc-2.3.2/configure.in
===================================================================
--- glibc-2.3.2.orig/configure.in	2003-02-26 01:46:31.000000000 +0100
+++ glibc-2.3.2/configure.in	2006-08-05 22:05:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -1187,6 +1187,8 @@
     fi
   fi
 
+  AC_CHECK_TARGET_TOOL([READELF],[readelf],[readelf],[$PATH])
+
   AC_CACHE_CHECK(for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support,
 		 libc_cv_initfinit_array, [dnl
   cat > conftest.c <<EOF
@@ -1198,7 +1200,7 @@
   if AC_TRY_COMMAND([${CC-cc} -o conftest conftest.c
 		     -static -nostartfiles -nostdlib 1>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])
   then
-    if readelf -S conftest | fgrep INIT_ARRAY > /dev/null; then
+    if $READELF -S conftest | fgrep INIT_ARRAY > /dev/null; then
       libc_cv_initfinit_array=yes
     else
       libc_cv_initfinit_array=no
@@ -1290,7 +1292,7 @@
 dnl introducing new options this is not easily doable.  Instead use a tool
 dnl which always is cross-platform: readelf.  To detect whether -z combreloc
 dnl look for a section named .rel.dyn.
-    if readelf -S conftest.so | grep '\.rel\(a\|\)\.dyn' > /dev/null; then
+    if $READELF -S conftest.so | grep '\.rel\(a\|\)\.dyn' > /dev/null; then
       libc_cv_z_combreloc=yes
     else
       libc_cv_z_combreloc=no