On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:49:00 +0000 Steve Capper <steve.cap...@linaro.org> wrote: > Package: linux-tools-3.16 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > For arm64, perf is not being built for Jessie. > > I have attached a patch which works for me on a Juno board. > > A kernel patch is cherry-picked to fix a perf build bug (this only > affects the arm64 tree).
Thanks, but: > Also, I have modified the build-dep to explicitly pull in binutils-dev. > (I found that both binutils-dev and libiberty are needed for C++ > demangling support). This will result in linking against libbfd, but its licence is not compatible with perf (GPLv3+ vs GPLv2-only). > Some other build logic is altered in particular the architectures list > is now set to: linux-any; and the install-tools rule is now an > unconditional dependency for binary-arch, this took me *ages* to > find :-(. This is wrong because we still have some architectures that perf doesn't build on. Ben. > Please let me know if I've missed anything obvious or you would like me > to run additional tests. > > Cheers, > -- > Steve -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.
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