summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/src/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'src/README')
-rw-r--r--src/README7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/README b/src/README
index 33cac74f..f7e4b61e 100644
--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -10,3 +10,10 @@ Fundamental design decision:
users must match. No third-party EBL module are supported or allowed.
The only reason there are separate modules is to not have the code for
all architectures in all the binaries.
+
+- although the public libraries (libasm, libdw) have a stable API and are
+ backwards ABI compatible they, and the elfutils tools, do depend on each
+ others internals, and on internals of libelf to provide their interfaces.
+ So they should always be upgraded in lockstep when packaging the tools
+ and libraries separately. For one example of how to do that, see the
+ config/elfutils.spec.