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+Add a --{enable,disable}-progs configure option
+
+Add a --{enable,disable}-progs configuration option to elfutils. This
+allows to selectively disable the compilation of the elfutils programs
+(in which case only the libraries are built and installed). This is
+useful because the programs are often not needed, and also because
+building the programs against uClibc causes several issues (lack of
+obstack_printf() in uClibc for example).
+
+Based on the former patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
+Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
+
+diff -rup a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+--- a/configure.ac 2015-01-06 11:31:10.122219826 +0000
++++ b/configure.ac 2015-01-06 11:37:38.397891424 +0000
+@@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ if test "$ac_cv_func_argp_parse" != yes;
+ fi
+ AC_SUBST(ARGP_LIBS)
+
++AC_ARG_ENABLE([progs],
++ AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-progs], [enable progs]),
++ enable_progs=$enableval,
++ enable_progs=yes)
++AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_PROGS, test "$enable_progs" = yes)
++
+ dnl Test for zlib and bzlib, gives ZLIB/BZLIB .am
+ dnl conditional and config.h USE_ZLIB/USE_BZLIB #define.
+ save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+diff -rup a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
+--- a/Makefile.am 2014-06-17 19:51:09.000000000 +0100
++++ b/Makefile.am 2015-01-06 11:38:42.846999410 +0000
+@@ -22,9 +22,13 @@ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+
+ pkginclude_HEADERS = version.h
+
++if ENABLE_PROGS
++PROGS_SUBDIR = src
++endif
++
+ # Add doc back when we have some real content.
+ SUBDIRS = config m4 lib libelf libebl libdwelf libdwfl libdw libcpu libasm \
+- backends src po tests
++ backends $(PROGS_SUBDIR) po tests
+
+ EXTRA_DIST = elfutils.spec GPG-KEY NOTES CONTRIBUTING \
+ COPYING COPYING-GPLV2 COPYING-LGPLV3