netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: support libbpf-provided extern variables

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Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:43:47 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...com,
        andrii.nakryiko@...il.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: support libbpf-provided extern
 variables

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 05:47:08PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
[...]
> Config file itself is searched in /boot/config-$(uname -r) location with
> fallback to /proc/config.gz, unless config path is specified explicitly
> through bpf_object_open_opts' kernel_config_path option. Both gzipped and
> plain text formats are supported. Libbpf adds explicit dependency on zlib
> because of this, but this shouldn't be a problem, given libelf already depends
> on zlib.

Hm, given this seems to break the build and is not an essential feature,
can't we use the feature detection from tooling infra which you invoke
anyway to compile out bpf_object__read_kernel_config() internals and return
an error there? Build could warn perf-style what won't be available for
the user in that case.

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1210213/

Also, does libbpf.pc.template need updating wrt zlib?