linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf build: fix -lbfd feature check

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:08:26 -0800
From:   Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
To:     jolsa@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        acme@...nel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        namhyung@...nel.org, mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf build: fix -lbfd feature check

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:34 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:32:01PM -0800, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> > Current libbfd feature test unconditionally links against -liberty and -lz.
> > While it's required on some systems (e.g. opensuse), it's completely
> > unnecessary on the others, where only -lbdf is sufficient (debian).
> > This patch streamlines (and renames) the following feature checks:
> >
> > feature-libbfd           - only link against -lbfd (debian),
> >                            see commit 2cf9040714f3 ("perf tools: Fix bfd
> >                          dependency libraries detection")
> > feature-libbfd-liberty   - link against -lbfd and -liberty
> > feature-libbfd-liberty-z - link against -lbfd, -liberty and -lz (opensuse),
> >                            see commit 280e7c48c3b8 ("perf tools: fix BFD
> >                          detection on opensuse")
> >
> > (feature-liberty{,-z} were renamed to feature-libbfd-liberty{,z}
> > for clarity)
> >
> > The main motivation is to fix this feature test for bpftool which is
> > currently broken on debian (libbfd feature shows OFF, but we still
> > unconditionally link against -lbfd and it works).
> >
> > Tested on debian with only -lbfd installed (without -liberty); I'd
> > appreciate if somebody on the other systems can test this new detection
> > method.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
>
> looks good, Fedora goes with standalone libbfd
>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
>
> thanks,
> jirka

Will this be included in the next merge window? Or this patch was
somehow missed out? (I didn't get any notification about it being
pulled).
We need this to get -lbfd working with bpftool as well...