5.2. Plugin-Specific Actions

5.2.1. The ELF plug-in

The ELF plug-in is used to extract information from applications built as Executable and Linkable Format files. It can be run against applications created by Independent Software Vendor (ISV) as well as internal Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications or libraries.

This plug-in, once installed, provides the following actions:

ELF plug-in options:
--appdir=APPDIR     folder containing application files
--installed-package=PACKAGE
                    package installed in system via rpm
--rpmdir=RPMDIR     folder containing rpms (for an application)
--rpmfile=RPMFILE   single rpm file

The options that are passed to the client when using the ELF plug-in will depend on the type of application being tested.

ELF plug-in options

--appdir: This option should be used to refer to a directory containing the application's files. Application files can include all files which are present when application gets installed/deployed.
When using this option it is recommended that all compressed files be extracted into corresponding directories.
--installed-package: This option should be used to identify the package, if it is already installed on the host machine.
--rpmdir: This option should be used to point to a directory containing the application's RPM files.
--rpmfile: This option should be used to point to a single RPM file.

Any logs created using the ELF plug-in should be attached to Bugzilla tickets logged under the Red Hat Software Certification product and the certification-rhel component. Refer to Section 7.1, “Submitting results using the test suite” for detailed information about this task.