On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@ghostprotocols.net> wrote: > Em Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:51:09PM -0400, Patrick Palka escreveu: >> When I attempt to build perf on a system with slang but without libelf, >> 'make' would wrongly complain that the slang library could not be found. >> >> It turns out that this was happening because we are not filtering -lelf >> from EXTLIBS early enough. As a result, the library test for slang >> (ditto for gtk, libaudit, etc) erroneously passes -lelf to try-cc, which >> of course fails on a system without libelf. >> >> This patch makes the filtering of -lelf from EXTLIBS occur right after >> testing for libelf support, so that the subsequent library tests will >> not erroneously pass -lelf to try-cc when building without libelf >> support. > > Can you please check with the perf/core branch in my tree or Ingo's? > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/core > > or Ingo's: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf/core > > The feature detection was reworked and perhaps it is fixed there. > > - Arnaldo
I can't reproduce the detection failure in your branch, and a quick inspection shows that the new feature-detection code is not subject to the kind of bug that my patch fixed. So consider my patch obsolete. Thanks, Patrick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
