Memprof library (libbfd) problem

[Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>]

    Hello,
	I'm trying to install Memprof from Owen's homepage.  This is on my
i386 Mandrake 6.1 system.

	Unfortunately:

[root@localhost dereks]# rpm -ivh memprof-0.3.0-1.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	libbfd-2.9.1.0.24.so is needed by memprof-0.3.0-1

	I have this:

[root@localhost dereks]# rpm -qa | grep binutils
binutils-2.9.1.0.25-5mdk

	...which has this:

[root@localhost dereks]# rpm -ql binutils | grep libbfd
/usr/lib/libbfd-2.9.1.0.25.so
/usr/lib/libbfd.a
/usr/lib/libbfd.la
/usr/lib/libbfd.so

	...but I have the more up-to-date libbfd-2.9.1.0.25.so instead of
libbfd-2.9.1.0.24.so that is needed by Memprof.  This is not just a
problem with the RPM, either: the binary actually requires that version:

[root@localhost dereks]# rpm -i --nodeps memprof-0.3.0-1.i386.rpm 
user otaylor does not exist - using root
group otaylor does not exist - using root
[...many repeats of the otaylor error, it'd be nice to fix this...]

[root@localhost dereks]# ldd /usr/bin/memprof | grep libbfd
	libbfd-2.9.1.0.24.so => not found

	I really don't feel like downgrading my libbfd.so, or like fscking
up my RPM database by installing .tar.gz distributed libraries.  Is there
anything I can do?  This is really annoying.


--Derek

P.S.> I'm curious as to why libbfd-2.9.1.0.24.so is required, instead of
simply libbfd.so...?