Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf, tools: Add probing for xed

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:58:54PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 01:00:26AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Add autoprobing for the xed disassembler library.
> > 
> > Can be downloaded from https://github.com/intelxed/xed
> > +++ b/tools/build/Makefile.feature
> > @@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ FEATURE_TESTS_BASIC :=                  \
> >          lzma                            \
> >          get_cpuid                       \
> >          bpf                             \
> > -        sdt
> > +	sdt				\
> > +	xed

> >  # FEATURE_TESTS_BASIC + FEATURE_TESTS_EXTRA is the complete list
> >  # of all feature tests
> > @@ -105,7 +106,8 @@ FEATURE_DISPLAY ?=              \
> >           zlib                   \
> >           lzma                   \
> >           get_cpuid              \
> > -         bpf
> > +	 bpf			\
> > +	 xed
 
> please don't put it in FEATURE_DISPLAY.. AFAICS there's not any xed
> package yet, just the sources, so the "xed: OFF" build message would
> bother almost everyone probably for long time..

Right, I was going to point this out, the policy has been to not even
try to build features that will likely fail due to not being widely
available in distros.

So please do as with libbabeltrace, where it is only built if one
explicitely asks it to be, see:

commit 6ab2b762befd192b90704c5c7898f5abf8ebb387
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat Mar 28 11:30:30 2015 +0100

    perf build: Disable libbabeltrace check by default
    
    Disabling libbabeltrace check by default and replacing the
    NO_LIBBABELTRACE make variable with LIBBABELTRACE.
    
    Users wanting the libbabeltrace feature need to build via:
    
      $ make LIBBABELTRACE=1
    
    The reason for this is that the libababeltrace interface we use (version
    1.3) hasn't been packaged/released yet, thus the failing feature check
    only slows down build and confuses other (non CTF) developers.
    
    Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>