* Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:01:57AM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > > On 4/28/14, 3:22 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > >From: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> > > > > > >There's false assumption in the library detection code > > >assuming -liberty and -lz are always present once bfd > > >is detected. The fails on Ubuntu (14.04) as reported > > >by Ingo. > > > > > >Forcing the bdf dependency libraries detection any > > >time bfd library is detected. > > > > Have you tried static builds? I need to do those occasionally and I > > always have to muck around with the Makefiles to get it to succeed > > -- something with the -liberty and bfd checks. > > hm, I just tried and even without of the fix I wasn't able > to do static build.. so far I ended up with: > > --- > $ make LDFLAGS=-static NO_LIBUNWIND=1 NO_GTK2=1 JOBS=1 > ... > > SUBDIR /home/jolsa/kernel.org/linux-perf/tools/lib/traceevent/ > LINK perf > /bin/ld: cannot find -lelf > /home/jolsa/kernel.org/linux-perf/tools/lib/traceevent/libtraceevent.a(event-plugin.o): > In function `load_plugin': > /home/jolsa/kernel.org/linux-perf/tools/lib/traceevent/event-plugin.c:60: > warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications requires at runtime > the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking > /bin/ld: cannot find -lelf > /bin/ld: cannot find -ldw > /bin/ld: cannot find -laudit > /bin/ld: cannot find -lslang > /bin/ld: cannot find -lperl > libperf.a(target.o): In function `target__parse_uid': > /home/jolsa/kernel.org/linux-perf/tools/perf/util/target.c:79: warning: Using > 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared > libraries from the glibc version used for linking > /home/jolsa/kernel.org/linux-perf/tools/perf/util/target.c:91: warning: Using > 'getpwuid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared > libraries from the glibc version used for linking > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.2/../../../../lib64/libpthread.a(libpthread.o): > In function `sem_open': > (.text+0x67eb): warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use > `mkstemp' > /bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.7 > /bin/ld: cannot find -lz > /bin/ld: cannot find -lnuma > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [perf] Error 1 > make: *** [all] Error 2 > --- > > Any hints what you did to make it pass? > Let's fix it and put test for this in tests/make suite ;-)
/me agrees violently. I try static builds every now and then, to be able to test perf on ancient systems with userspace that doesn't build perf anymore. Thanks, Ingo -- 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/