perf tools: Warn about missing libelf
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:06:46 +0000 (00:06 +0900)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:17:48 +0000 (12:17 -0200)
When perf detects no libelf during the build, it'll use internal mini
elf parser instead of libelf.  But as it only supports minimal
functionalities, it also disables support to 'probe' builtin command.

Currently it didn't warned to user.  Fix it.

$ sudo apt-get remove libelf-dev
$ make
    CHK -fstack-protector-all
    CHK -Wstack-protector
    CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
    CHK bionic
    CHK libelf
    CHK glibc
Makefile:491: No libelf found, disables 'probe' tool, please install elfutils-libelf-devel/libelf-dev
    CHK libunwind
    CHK libaudit

$ make NO_LIBELF=1
    CHK -fstack-protector-all
    CHK -Wstack-protector
    CHK -Wvolatile-register-var
    CHK bionic
    CHK libaudit

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8ww8zc4hhpxabfskxs3u5ede@git.kernel.org
[ committer note: The package needed is elfutils-libelf-devel, not elfutils-devel ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Makefile

index 7e25f59e5e89f4f70325c9f2dc169db75a8cc6db..b1801e0693c9fd4d66549bc365e60d216efdd86a 100644 (file)
@@ -490,6 +490,8 @@ ifneq ($(call try-cc,$(SOURCE_LIBELF),$(FLAGS_LIBELF),libelf),y)
                LIBC_SUPPORT := 1
        endif
        ifeq ($(LIBC_SUPPORT),1)
+               msg := $(warning No libelf found, disables 'probe' tool, please install elfutils-libelf-devel/libelf-dev);
+
                NO_LIBELF := 1
                NO_DWARF := 1
                NO_DEMANGLE := 1