diff --git a/dev-libs/elfutils/Manifest b/dev-libs/elfutils/Manifest
index ecd12d2..f29d757 100644
--- a/dev-libs/elfutils/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/elfutils/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST elfutils-0.170.tar.bz2 8358001 BLAKE2B 03ea3ba7d3feaac43065312c475f4a3cd9083a6c56c9982fa00c0ed02b28440f6a37bbeca4be18db13749647ea1c8a6f00dae7efcb1c70235110e60ad7d56d06 SHA512 aca0b5e271138eaf86e36505ffb101181207b151e833e6cd7c18986ac50678542a5ecd2250f8dd6923ca497142f197c8b08fd225e4130b16b6203c24013d6d28
-DIST elfutils-0.175.tar.bz2 8786600 BLAKE2B d6d4ade37741da788c6c2eec9688c6f8ac9707e0b17e0518398972dab3cf77a70cc82346c2e37b41f0ea414b9a1e925a7567567fcf43d504d75c92971ab25f5d SHA512 2c3168a34bbc8f22425faa263fc24ec50df39258a4f9ace4e6cd88e9764c435fee70c1a82db8273dbab70a75e5216a200bebf05af1d3ea77e444e35d71a4ed84
+DIST elfutils-0.177.tar.bz2 8852413 BLAKE2B 03f432342651f7646d73b7847325bd14b722ce34d85df01b1ad072b916af9b9da2d0d119cd24e952073bd584ec76b027ba9b6c7d45fb057372b3e700b1f5741a SHA512 2779987463a22ed220759e25a09c9a1eb84c0f36db37675136e59aa55c7f8f90b7a7d34ffc4e6a4291d7fa73692a1bd1a303a74270b11d1623b4f9868d19498f
diff --git a/dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.175-r1.ebuild b/dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.177.ebuild
similarity index 79%
rename from dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.175-r1.ebuild
rename to dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.177.ebuild
index 5a6ea49..27afb9d 100644
--- a/dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.175-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/elfutils/elfutils-0.177.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2003-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=6
+EAPI=7
 
 inherit flag-o-matic multilib-minimal
 
@@ -14,19 +14,21 @@
 KEYWORDS="*"
 IUSE="bzip2 lzma nls static-libs test +threads +utils"
 
-RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r4[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
-	lzma? ( >=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.5-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1[static-libs?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r4[static-libs?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	lzma? ( >=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.5-r1[static-libs?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	!dev-libs/libelf"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
 	>=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a
 	sys-devel/m4"
 
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.118-PaX-support.patch
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.173-partial-core.patch
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.175-disable-biarch-test-PR24158.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.177-disable-large.patch
 )
 
 src_prepare() {
diff --git a/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.173-partial-core.patch b/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.173-partial-core.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 41ef14d..0000000
--- a/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.173-partial-core.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-https://sourceware.org/PR24103
-https://bugs.gentoo.org/676794
-
-From da5c5336a1eaf519de246f7d9f0f5585e1d4ac59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:05:56 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] libdwfl: Sanity check partial core file dyn data read.
-
-When reading the dyn data from the core file check if we got everything,
-or just part of the data.
-
-https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24103
-
-Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
----
- libdwfl/dwfl_segment_report_module.c | 6 ++++++
-
---- a/libdwfl/dwfl_segment_report_module.c
-+++ b/libdwfl/dwfl_segment_report_module.c
-@@ -783,6 +783,12 @@ dwfl_segment_report_module (Dwfl *dwfl, int ndx, const char *name,
-   if (dyn_filesz != 0 && dyn_filesz % dyn_entsize == 0
-       && ! read_portion (&dyn_data, &dyn_data_size, dyn_vaddr, dyn_filesz))
-     {
-+      /* dyn_data_size will be zero if we got everything from the initial
-+         buffer, otherwise it will be the size of the new buffer that
-+         could be read.  */
-+      if (dyn_data_size != 0)
-+	dyn_filesz = dyn_data_size;
-+
-       void *dyns = malloc (dyn_filesz);
-       Elf32_Dyn (*d32)[dyn_filesz / sizeof (Elf32_Dyn)] = dyns;
-       Elf64_Dyn (*d64)[dyn_filesz / sizeof (Elf64_Dyn)] = dyns;
--- 
-2.20.1
diff --git a/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.177-disable-large.patch b/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.177-disable-large.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7829585
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.177-disable-large.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+getconf does not disable test on 64-kernel with CFLAGS=-m32
+--- a/tests/run-large-elf-file.sh
++++ b/tests/run-large-elf-file.sh
+@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
+ 
+ # Only run on 64bit systems, 32bit systems don't support > 4GB
+ # ELF files.
++
++# this detection fails for 64-bit systems with -m32
++exit 77
++
+ long_bit=$(getconf LONG_BIT)
+ echo "long_bit: $long_bit"
+ if test $long_bit -ne 64; then
diff --git a/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.179-PaX-support.patch b/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.179-PaX-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5246d1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/elfutils/files/elfutils-0.179-PaX-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Add support for PaX ELF markings
+
+Patch by Kevin F. Quinn <kevquinn@gentoo.org>
+
+http://bugs.gentoo.org/115100
+
+--- a/libelf/elf.h
++++ b/libelf/elf.h
+@@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ typedef struct
+ #define PT_GNU_EH_FRAME	0x6474e550	/* GCC .eh_frame_hdr segment */
+ #define PT_GNU_STACK	0x6474e551	/* Indicates stack executability */
+ #define PT_GNU_RELRO	0x6474e552	/* Read-only after relocation */
++#define PT_PAX_FLAGS	0x65041580	/* Indicates PaX flag markings */
+ #define PT_LOSUNW	0x6ffffffa
+ #define PT_SUNWBSS	0x6ffffffa	/* Sun Specific segment */
+ #define PT_SUNWSTACK	0x6ffffffb	/* Stack segment */
+--- a/src/elflint.c
++++ b/src/elflint.c
+@@ -4493,6 +4493,7 @@ only executables, shared objects, and core files can have program headers\n"));
+ 
+       if (phdr->p_type >= PT_NUM && phdr->p_type != PT_GNU_EH_FRAME
+ 	  && phdr->p_type != PT_GNU_STACK && phdr->p_type != PT_GNU_RELRO
++	  && phdr->p_type != PT_PAX_FLAGS
+ 	  && phdr->p_type != PT_GNU_PROPERTY
+ 	  /* Check for a known machine-specific type.  */
+ 	  && ebl_segment_type_name (ebl, phdr->p_type, NULL, 0) == NULL)
diff --git a/dev-libs/elfutils/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/elfutils/metadata.xml
index 14c09d8..10d87fa 100644
--- a/dev-libs/elfutils/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/elfutils/metadata.xml
@@ -9,5 +9,9 @@
 		<flag name="lzma">Support automatic decompression of LZMA-compressed files and kernel images</flag>
 		<flag name="threads">Build the libraries with thread safe support</flag>
 		<flag name="utils">Install command-line utilities (all the eu-* programs)</flag>
+		<flag name="valgrind">Add support for memory debugging using <pkg>dev-util/valgrind</pkg></flag>
 	</use>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:elfutils_project:elfutils</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/elfutils-0.175-r1 b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/elfutils-0.175-r1
deleted file mode 100644
index e4e4c33..0000000
--- a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/elfutils-0.175-r1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-DEFINED_PHASES=compile configure install prepare test
-DEPEND=>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r4[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) lzma? ( >=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.5-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) !dev-libs/libelf nls? ( sys-devel/gettext ) >=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a sys-devel/m4
-DESCRIPTION=Libraries/utilities to handle ELF objects (drop in replacement for libelf)
-EAPI=6
-HOMEPAGE=http://elfutils.org/
-IUSE=bzip2 lzma nls static-libs test +threads +utils abi_x86_32 abi_x86_64 abi_x86_x32 abi_mips_n32 abi_mips_n64 abi_mips_o32 abi_ppc_32 abi_ppc_64 abi_s390_32 abi_s390_64 abi_arm_32 abi_arm_64
-KEYWORDS=*
-LICENSE=|| ( GPL-2+ LGPL-3+ ) utils? ( GPL-3+ )
-RDEPEND=>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r4[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) lzma? ( >=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.5-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) !dev-libs/libelf
-SLOT=0
-SRC_URI=https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/0.175/elfutils-0.175.tar.bz2
-_eclasses_=eutils	06133990e861be0fe60c2b428fd025d9	flag-o-matic	5d5921a298e95441da2f85be419894c0	multibuild	40fe59465edacd730c644ec2bc197809	multilib	b2f01ad412baf81650c23fcf0975fa33	multilib-build	1979aa0ff4d356d32507ca4650d9f37d	multilib-minimal	8bddda43703ba94d8341f4e247f97566	toolchain-funcs	209edad4a5c4812e7b2f8021650974f0
-_md5_=2a7ae4c31fcb2dfc573eb77c41668ee3
diff --git a/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/elfutils-0.177 b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/elfutils-0.177
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..badda06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata/md5-cache/dev-libs/elfutils-0.177
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+BDEPEND=nls? ( sys-devel/gettext ) >=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a sys-devel/m4
+DEFINED_PHASES=compile configure install prepare test
+DEPEND=>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1[static-libs?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r4[static-libs?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) lzma? ( >=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.5-r1[static-libs?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) !dev-libs/libelf
+DESCRIPTION=Libraries/utilities to handle ELF objects (drop in replacement for libelf)
+EAPI=7
+HOMEPAGE=http://elfutils.org/
+IUSE=bzip2 lzma nls static-libs test +threads +utils abi_x86_32 abi_x86_64 abi_x86_x32 abi_mips_n32 abi_mips_n64 abi_mips_o32 abi_ppc_32 abi_ppc_64 abi_s390_32 abi_s390_64 abi_arm_32 abi_arm_64
+KEYWORDS=*
+LICENSE=|| ( GPL-2+ LGPL-3+ ) utils? ( GPL-3+ )
+RDEPEND=>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1[static-libs?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] bzip2? ( >=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r4[static-libs?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) lzma? ( >=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.5-r1[static-libs?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,abi_arm_32(-)?,abi_arm_64(-)?] ) !dev-libs/libelf
+RESTRICT=!test? ( test )
+SLOT=0
+SRC_URI=https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/0.177/elfutils-0.177.tar.bz2
+_eclasses_=eutils	06133990e861be0fe60c2b428fd025d9	flag-o-matic	5d5921a298e95441da2f85be419894c0	multibuild	40fe59465edacd730c644ec2bc197809	multilib	b2f01ad412baf81650c23fcf0975fa33	multilib-build	1979aa0ff4d356d32507ca4650d9f37d	multilib-minimal	8bddda43703ba94d8341f4e247f97566	toolchain-funcs	209edad4a5c4812e7b2f8021650974f0
+_md5_=86091c9bb4f664d77e0ff79a41a00c7f