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.TH "ELFDEPS" "1" "2026\-10\-04" "RPM 6.1.0"
.PP
.SH NAME
\fBelfdeps\fR \- Dependency generator for ELF binaries
.PP
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBelfdeps\fR <operation> [options]
.PP
\fBelfdeps\fR <operation> [options] [\fIFILE\fR] .\&.\&.\&
.PP
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBelfdeps\fR is a \fIdependency generator\fR for ELF executables
and dynamic shared object (DSO) files.\& The filenames can be received
on the standard input (when used as a generator), or command line
arguments for testing convenience.\&
.PP
\fBelfdeps\fR encodes information stored in ELF files into a format suitable
for use in RPM dependencies.\& The main interest areas are \fBDT_SONAME\fR,
\fBDT_NEEDED\fR fields of the \fBSHT_DYNAMIC\fR section, and symbol versioning
information in the \fBSHT_GNU_verdef\fR and \fBSHT_GNU_verneed\fR sections.\&
.PP
\fBelfdeps\fR is not normally invoked directly, but doing so can be useful for
troubleshooting dependency generation and developing new dependency
generators.\& The installation directory of \fBelfdeps\fR can be determined with
\fBrpm \-E "%{_rpmconfigdir}"\fR.\&
.PP
This man page describes the options specific to this generator,
see \fBrpm\-dependency\-generators\fR(7) for information about the overall
mechanism.\&
.PP
.SH OPERATIONS
\fB\-P\fR,
\fB\-\-provides\fR,
.RS 4
Print the provides dependencies.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB\-R\fR,
\fB\-\-requires\fR
.RS 4
Print the requires dependencies.\&
.PP
.RE
.SH ARGUMENTS
\fIFILE\fR
.RS 4
An ELF file.\& Other file types are silently ignored.\&
.PP
.RE
.SH OPTIONS
\fB\-\-no\-fake\-soname\fR
.RS 4
Do not emit a fake soname for DSOs that don'\&t set \fBDT_SONAME\fR.\&
By default, \fBelfdeps\fR generates a soname from the filename for
DSOs that do not have one.\&
Only effective when printing provides dependencies.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB\-\-no\-filter\-soname\fR
.RS 4
Do not filter sonames.\& By default, \fBelfdeps\fR does some sanity
checking to filter out redundant and/or invalid soname entries.\&
Only effective when printing provides dependencies.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB\-m\fR,
\fB\-\-multifile\fR
.RS 4
Use \fBmultifile\fR protocol for output.\&
See \fBrpm\-dependency\-generators\fR(7).\&
.PP
.RE
\fB\-\-require\-interp\fR
.RS 4
Emit a requires dependency for the ELF interpreter (\fBPT_INTERP\fR),
if there is one.\&
Only effective when printing requires dependencies.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB\-\-soname\-only\fR
.RS 4
Emit only the soname (\fBDT_SONAME\fR) of a DSO, omitting any symbol
versioning information.\&
Only effective when printing provides dependencies.\&
.PP
.RE
.SH OUTPUT
See \fBProtocols\fR in \fBrpm\-dependency\-generators\fR(7).\&
By default, \fBsinglefile\fR protocol is used, but the \fBmultifile\fR protocol
can be enabled with the \fB\-\-multifile\fR option.\&
.PP
.SH EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non\-zero failure code otherwise.\&
.PP
.SH EXAMPLES
\fBelfdeps \-\-requires /bin/ls\fR
.RS 4
Print ELF\-level requires dependencies of the \fI/bin/ls\fR executable.\&
.PP
.RE
\fBfind mylib\-1.\&0\-build/BUILDROOT \-\-name "*.\&so*" | elfdeps \-P \-\-multifile\fR
.RS 4
Print ELF\-level provides dependencies of all shared libraries
inside the \fImylib\-1.\&0\-build/BUILDROOT\fR directory, using the
\fBmultifile\fR generator protocol.\&
.PP
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBrpmbuild\fR(1) \fBrpm\-dependency\-generators\fR(7) \fBelf\fR(5) \fBreadelf\fR(1)
.PP
\fBhttp://www.\&rpm.\&org/\fR