Information about the package, dwarves, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dwarves package is designed for, Debugging Information Manipulation Tools.
Package Name:
dwarves
Summary:
Debugging Information Manipulation Tools
Description:
dwarves is a set of tools that use the debugging information inserted in ELF binaries by compilers such as GCC, used by well known debuggers such as GDB, and more recent ones such as systemtap. Utilities in the dwarves suite include pahole, that can be used to find alignment holes in structs and classes in languages such as C, C++, but not limited to these. It also extracts other information such as CPU cacheline alignment, helping pack those structures to achieve more cache hits. A diff like tool, codiff can be used to compare the effects changes in source code generate on the resulting binaries. Another tool is pfunct, that can be used to find all sorts of information about functions, inlines, decisions made by the compiler about inlining, etc.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.9
Release:
2.el6
Size:
64 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the dwarves package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dwarves
This command will install dwarves on the server.
yum remove dwarves
This command will un-install dwarves on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dwarves, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dwarves
This command will un-install dwarves on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dwarves when using the -y flag.
yum update dwarves
This command will update dwarves to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dwarves, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dwarves
This command will update dwarves to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dwarves when using the -y flag.
yum info dwarves
This command will show you core information about the dwarves package.
yum deplist dwarves
This command will show you the dependencies for dwarves. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update dwarves
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dwarves. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.