linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 00/36] perf tools: New build framework

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Message-ID: <20150116123013.GB15672@krava.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2015 13:30:13 +0100
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...aro.org>,
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	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"S. Lockwood-Childs" <sjl@...labs.com>,
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	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 00/36] perf tools: New build framework

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:22:21PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:12:14PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:39:22AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:54:56PM +0000, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > > I'm following up on latest post from Alexis:
> > > >   http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141427580405357&w=2
> > > > 
> > > > v2 changes:
> > > >   - build Makefiles librarized and moved to 'tools/build' [Ingo]
> > > >   - several minor fixies [Namhyung]
> > > >   - tested on other archs now - x86_64, i386, powerpc
> > > >   - moved tools/lib/* under new build framework to show
> > > >     that it's possible ;-)
> > > >     included traceevent/lockdep maintainers to get the feedback
> > > >   - omitted last 2 patches
> > > > 
> > > > The patchset is also available in:
> > > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
> > > >   perf/build
> > > > 
> > > > All tests/make tests passed.
> > > > 
> > > > Any feedback from ARM guys would be great ;-)
> > > 
> > > [adding Mark Rutland to Cc]
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > I just tried a cross-build for arm, and that blew up when trying to do
> > something with arch/arm/util/libperf-in.o (log below). I bisected that
> > to f169fbc4c59dd9d4 "perf build: Add arch x86 objects building". I'm
> > looking into why now.
> 
> I get a similar failure doing a native arm64 build. I think the problem is
> because the arch/ files for arm and arm64 aren't always required (i.e. there
> are configurations where nothing is built under there) and, consequently,
> libperf-in.o isn't actually needed and we try to link against something that
> doesn't exist.

exactly ;-) I'll spin v3 shortly..

thanks,
jirka
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