Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix linking errors with --as-needed flag

[Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:24 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:04:32PM +0300, Ozan Çağlayan escreveu:
> > On 18.07.2010 13:45, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> > > External shared libraries should never be appended to the LDFLAGS as
> > > this messes the linking order. As EXTLIBS collects those libraries,
> > > it seems that perl and python libraries  should also be appended
> > > to EXTLIBS.
> > > 
> > > Also fix the broken linking order.
> > 
> > Hm actually the PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS may contain LDFLAGS and LIBADD according
> > to distribution's perl package configuration's goodness/badness. On my system
> > the return value is crap which bloats the linking process:
> > 
> >  -rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE  -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE -lperl -lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
> > 
> > PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS evaluates python-config --ldflags and adds these to 
> > ALL_LDFLAGS. (--libs and --ldflags are synonyms for python-config). According
> > to python-config this code *never* returns LDFLAGS so it's safe to put them in
> > EXTLIBS.
> > 
> > So the cure may be more than this patch for perl stuff, but at least it fixes my
> > linking problems with -Wl, --as-needed.
> 
> Can you refresh this patch? I had it in the back of my mind, remembered
> it when considering a similar patch by Kirill, but his covers just the
> python case.
> 
> Tom, can you please check Ozan's and Kirill's patches and tell me if I
> can stick your Acked-by to them?
> 

I refreshed Ozan's patch against tip and tried both with and without
-Wl,--as-needed and it worked fine for both Perl and Python, on my
Ubuntu 9.10 system.  The refreshed patch I used is included below.

It wasn't clear to me whether Ozan's PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS output still
caused link errors; here's mine, which didn't:

trz@tropicana:~$ perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts
-Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm
-lpthread -lc -lcrypt

In any case, since neither ExtUtils::Embed nor python-config seem to
have a way to get the LDFLAGS and LIBADD components separately, we'll
have to find some other way to do that if necessary.

trz@tropicana:~$ python-config --libs
-lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lpython2.6
trz@tropicana:~$ python-config --ldflags
-L/usr/lib/python2.6/config -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lpython2.6


Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

---
 tools/perf/Makefile |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 4f1fa77..f35e784 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ else
 	ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_PERL_EMBED),$(FLAGS_PERL_EMBED)),y)
 		BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_LIBPERL
 	else
-		ALL_LDFLAGS += $(PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS)
+		EXTLIBS += $(PERL_EMBED_LDOPTS)
 		LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
 		LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
 	endif
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ else
 	ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_PYTHON_EMBED),$(FLAGS_PYTHON_EMBED)),y)
 		BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_LIBPYTHON
 	else
-		ALL_LDFLAGS += $(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)
+		EXTLIBS += $(PYTHON_EMBED_LDOPTS)
 		LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.o
 		LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
 	endif
@@ -910,8 +910,8 @@ $(OUTPUT)perf.o: perf.c $(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h $(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS
 		$(ALL_CFLAGS) -c $(filter %.c,$^) -o $@
 
 $(OUTPUT)perf$X: $(OUTPUT)perf.o $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(PERFLIBS)
-	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OUTPUT)perf.o \
-		$(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)
+	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(OUTPUT)perf.o \
+		$(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(LIBS) -o $@
 
 $(OUTPUT)builtin-help.o: builtin-help.c $(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h $(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS
 	$(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $@ -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) \
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