linux-kernel - Re: [ALMOST ready] Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf build: Use libtraceevent from the system

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Message-ID: <Y5Cjylv9dJh796dw@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2022 11:31:38 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [ALMOST ready] Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf build: Use libtraceevent
 from the system

Em Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:21:18AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> One thing I'm doing now is testing with the container builds, and I'm
> afraid we have to delay deleting the in-kernel old copy of
> tools/lib/traceevent till distros that don't ship libtraceevent as a
> separate package are EOLed.
> 
> We need in those cases to fallback to tools/lib/traceevent/, with a
> warning probably.
> 
> I'm now updating my container build recipes to install
> libtraceevent-devel, when available, which isn't the case, for instance,
> for almalinux:8, the first I tried updating.

No distro I tested so far has a package for libtracevent in is default
repositories:

almalinux 8 and 9 and the recently released Alpine Linux 3.17 (at least
I hadn't a recipe for that one, will try with edge).

- Arnaldo