linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Add EXCLUDE_EXTLIBS and EXTRA

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Message-ID: <CALcN6mis2zHYtJCgW2yN831KSDPOb9G8rVRy0E9-XF_1pyZt0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 15:10:55 -0700
From:   David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>
To:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Add EXCLUDE_EXTLIBS and EXTRA_PERFLIBS to makefile

+Jiri

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 1:26 PM, David Carrillo-Cisneros
<davidcc@...gle.com> wrote:
> The goal is to allow users to override linking of libraries that
> were automatically added to PERFLIBS.
>
> EXCLUDE_EXTLIBS contains linker flags to be removed from LIBS
> while EXTRA_PERFLIBS contains linker flags to be added.
>
> My use case is to force certain library to be build statically,
> e.g. for libelf:
>
>   EXCLUDE_EXTLIBS=-lelf EXTRA_PERFLIBS=path/libelf.a
>
> Signed-off-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> index 79fe31f20a17..685443085e1a 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
> @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ include ../scripts/utilities.mak
>  #
>  # Define EXTRA_CFLAGS=-m64 or EXTRA_CFLAGS=-m32 as appropriate for cross-builds.
>  #
> +# Define EXCLUDE_EXTLIBS=-lmylib to exclude libmylib from the auto-generated
> +# EXTLIBS.
> +#
> +# Define EXTRA_PERFLIBS to pass extra libraries to PERFLIBS.
> +#
>  # Define NO_DWARF if you do not want debug-info analysis feature at all.
>  #
>  # Define WERROR=0 to disable treating any warnings as errors.
> @@ -352,7 +357,8 @@ ifdef ASCIIDOC8
>    export ASCIIDOC8
>  endif
>
> -LIBS = -Wl,--whole-archive $(PERFLIBS) -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,--start-group $(EXTLIBS) -Wl,--end-group
> +EXTLIBS := $(call filter-out,$(EXCLUDE_EXTLIBS),$(EXTLIBS))
> +LIBS = -Wl,--whole-archive $(PERFLIBS) $(EXTRA_PERFLIBS) -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,--start-group $(EXTLIBS) -Wl,--end-group
>
>  ifeq ($(USE_CLANG), 1)
>    CLANGLIBS_LIST = AST Basic CodeGen Driver Frontend Lex Tooling Edit Sema Analysis Parse Serialization
> --
> 2.13.0.303.g4ebf302169-goog
>