A BSD-licensed implementation of compilation tools (nm, ar, as, ld, etc.) for the ELF object format. This release contains BSD-licensed implementations of the "libdwarf" and "libelf" libraries, and of the "addr2line", "ar", "brandelf", "c++filt", "elfcopy", "elfdump", "findtextrel", "mcs", "nm", "ranlib", "readelf", "size", "strings" and "strip" program development utilities. The release also contains API and utility reference documentation (300+ manual entries in all), and contains test suites for some of these released utilities and libraries.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.