What is the difference between elfutils and binutils ?

As per wikipedia, elfutils is mentioned as, “Ulrich Drepper wrote elfutils, to replace GNU Binutils, purely for Linux and with support only for ELF and DWARF”

elfutils is a Red Hat project.

There is substantial overlap between elfutils (eu-addr2line, eu-elflint, eu-findtextrel, eu-nm, eu-readelf, eu-size, eu-strip, etc.) and binutils (addr2line, nm, readelf, size, strip, objdump, etc.)

Ulrich Drepper who authored elfutils has mentioned the differences as below,

• The tools in elfutils compared with binutils are
  • smaller
  • faster (several times, usually)
  • less buggy,
  • more featureful
• there are several tools which are not available in binutils which are in (wide) use
  – there are several more tools which use the elfutils libraries (systemtap, frysk, …)

[ Also READ – How to compile elfutils for x86 ? ]

References –
– Wikipedia
– Redhat website