Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Support static linking with libdw

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 03:18:48PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The Fedora 22 version of libdw requires a couple of extra libraries
> to link. With a dynamic link the dependencies are pulled in automatically,
> but this doesn't work for static linking. Add the needed libraries
> explicitely to the feature probe and the Makefile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/build/feature/Makefile | 2 +-
>  tools/perf/config/Makefile   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/build/feature/Makefile b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
> index 463ed8f..179fc1a 100644
> --- a/tools/build/feature/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ test-glibc.bin:
>  	$(BUILD)
>  
>  test-dwarf.bin:
> -	$(BUILD) -ldw
> +	$(BUILD) -ldw -lelf -lebl -lz -llzma -lbz2
>  
>  test-libelf-mmap.bin:
>  	$(BUILD) -lelf
> diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
> index 094ddae..384e0a6 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
> @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ ifndef NO_LIBELF
>      else
>        CFLAGS += -DHAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT $(LIBDW_CFLAGS)
>        LDFLAGS += $(LIBDW_LDFLAGS)
> -      EXTLIBS += -ldw
> +      EXTLIBS += -ldw -lelf -lebl -lz -lbz2 -llzma
>        $(call detected,CONFIG_DWARF)
>      endif # PERF_HAVE_DWARF_REGS
>    endif # NO_DWARF
> -- 
> 2.4.3
> 

please also update the warning, as now it's not obvious you need
to install also bz2 libs (bzip2-devel on Fedora) for dwarf support..
we already have check for lzma

thanks,
jirka


[jolsa@krava perf]$ make 
  BUILD:   Doing 'make -j4' parallel build

Auto-detecting system features:
...                         dwarf: [ OFF ]
...                         glibc: [ on  ]
...                          gtk2: [ on  ]
...                      libaudit: [ on  ]
...                        libbfd: [ on  ]
...                        libelf: [ on  ]
...                       libnuma: [ on  ]
...                       libperl: [ on  ]
...                     libpython: [ on  ]
...                      libslang: [ on  ]
...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
...            libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
...                          zlib: [ on  ]
...                          lzma: [ on  ]

config/Makefile:267: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev