[Ltrace-devel] can't read ELF entry

[Petr Machata]

Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> writes:

> Imre Deak <imre.deak at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> tracing some programs in Ubuntu Oneiric/x86_64 like totem or firefox
>> gives no library call trace. I got the same result with the ltrace version
>> from git:
>
> For totem, I'm not sure what's going wrong.  On Fedora, this works, but
> when I download the Ubuntu binary, which (mirabile dictu!) actually
> works with Fedora libraries, I get the same as you (tracing syscalls
> works, but no PLT probes get installed).  I'll take a look at that.

It's a PIE binary.  We don't handle those.  I posted a patch a couple
years ago, but it never got integrated and would be obsolete by now.

I'll add that to my TODO, but that touches on a more general problem of
tracing PLT calls from shared libraries in general, and that requires a
bit more thorough solution than the quick hack that I posted back then.

Thanks,
PM