linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: Use python-config --includes rather than --cflags

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:46:12 -0400
From:   Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Use python-config --includes rather than --cflags

Builds started failing in Fedora on Python 3.7 with:

    `.gnu.debuglto_.debug_macro' referenced in section
    `.gnu.debuglto_.debug_macro' of
    util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.o: defined in discarded
    section

In Fedora, Python 3.7 added -flto to the list of --cflags and since it
was only applied to util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c and
scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.c, linking failed. It's not the
first time the addition of flags has broken builds: commit c6707fdef7e2
("perf tools: Fix up build in hardnened environments") appears to have
fixed a similar problem. "python-config --includes" provides the proper
-I flags and doesn't introduce additional CFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/Makefile.config | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index b5ac356ba323..f5a3b402589e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -207,8 +207,7 @@ ifdef PYTHON_CONFIG
   PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS := $(shell $(PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ) --ldflags 2>/dev/null)
   PYTHON_EMBED_LDFLAGS := $(call strip-libs,$(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS))
   PYTHON_EMBED_LIBADD := $(call grep-libs,$(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)) -lutil
-  PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS := $(shell $(PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ) --cflags 2>/dev/null)
-  PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS := $(filter-out -specs=%,$(PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS))
+  PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS := $(shell $(PYTHON_CONFIG_SQ) --includes 2>/dev/null)
   FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED := $(PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS) $(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)
 endif
 
-- 
2.17.1