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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:15:44 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
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* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:

> In fact this is why I thought those messages had been missing in your 
> patchset, they don't appear when I remove perl-devel, i.e. 'perl' 
> supporty is correctly detected as not possible to build due to missing 
> deps, but no message is emitted for this case.
> 
> And the bug is that the feature test for perl support passes, but since 
> it doesn't try to use EXTERN.h, like something that is enabled when the 
> feature test passes (util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c), the 
> build fails.

Hm, I probably messed up the lib-perl testcase - it was one of the more 
complex ones. I assumed that this:

...                       libperl: [ OFF ]

meant that I didn't have the dependencies installed - but it's the 
testcase that is wrong most likely.

Thanks,

	Ingo