On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:43:15PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:40:35PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 04:38:07PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:11:10AM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> > > > Hi Jiri,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm still thinking it's worth displaying the warning when perf missing 
> > > > some
> > > > libraries.
> > > > 
> > > > Somebody just told me that perf didn't work well. While after some
> > > > investigations, I found it's just missing some libraries when building 
> > > > the
> > > > perf.
> > > > 
> > > > But I have spent some time on getting the root cause. If with this 
> > > > patch, it
> > > > should be very easily to know that.
> > > 
> > > true.. Arnaldo, any feedback on this one?
> > 
> > Lemme re-read the thread...
> 
> Well, how about we make it harder to build without key libraries? I.e.
> if we detect that what we consider a core set of libraries isn't found
> in the system, then we stop the build, warn about it and ask the user to
> confirm that the build should proceed by passing some explicit
> -DI_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING___PROCEED=doit

hum, not sure we want to complicate the build even more than it
is now :-\ and IMO it still won't help much in Jin's problem,
if user forces the build anyway

jirka

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