netdev - Re: [PATCH] tools: bpftool: add feature check for zlib

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Message-ID: <20190812175302.54d6ef59@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:53:02 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>
Cc:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: bpftool: add feature check for zlib

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:38:33 +0100, Peter Wu wrote:
> bpftool requires libelf, and zlib for decompressing /proc/config.gz.
> zlib is a transitive dependency via libelf, and became mandatory since
> elfutils 0.165 (Jan 2016). The feature check of libelf is already done
> in the elfdep target of tools/lib/bpf/Makefile, pulled in by bpftool via
> a dependency on libbpf.a. Add a similar feature check for zlib.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>

Thanks!