[PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/kbuild: Document gendwarfksyms build dependencies

From: Jihan LIN via B4 Relay

Date: Wed Jan 14 2026 - 06:48:20 EST


From: Jihan LIN <linjh22s@xxxxxxxxx>

Although dependencies for gendwarfksyms were recently added to the
packaging rules [1-2], the corresponding documentation was missing.

Document the required build dependencies for gendwarfksyms, and
include a few examples for installing these dependencies on some
distributions.

[1] commit 657f96cb7c06 ("kbuild: deb-pkg: Add libdw-dev:native to
Build-Depends-Arch")
[2] commit 5bd6bdd0f76e ("kbuild: rpm-pkg: Add (elfutils-devel or
libdw-devel) to BuildRequires")
Signed-off-by: Jihan LIN <linjh22s@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst
index ed366250a54eac3a72c2f529da94a9e803704ae4..0e153d13b052da6edcf65950739730c123cd49db 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,29 @@ selected, **gendwarfksyms** is used instead to calculate symbol versions
from the DWARF debugging information, which contains the necessary
details about the final module ABI.

+Dependencies
+------------
+
+libelf, libdw and zlib are dependencies of gendwarfksyms.
+
+Here are a few examples for installing these dependencies:
+
+* Arch Linux and derivatives::
+
+ sudo pacman --needed -S zlib libelf
+
+* Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives::
+
+ sudo apt install libelf-dev libdw-dev zlib1g-dev
+
+* Fedora and derivatives::
+
+ sudo dnf install elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-devel zlib-devel
+
+* openSUSE and derivatives::
+
+ sudo zypper install libelf-devel libdw-devel zlib-devel
+
Usage
-----


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