On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 10:53, vygu <vygu@protonmail.ch> wrote:

> Just to signal there are several mistakes with the recipe "perf.bb" from
> poky on master (currently: e2bde009b325b40641407ecf50f54ed8c41726d6)
>
> - If "Python 3 is not yet supported" by "perf" sources, it causes an issue
> during the do_compile task
> - The last "install" in the do_configure_prepend task about
> "tools/include/linux/bits.h" does not work with a linux kernel 4.5 to 4.18
> because this file does not exist
> [- The usage of _prepend or _append in this bb file does not help to
> create a bbappend]
>

I think this is expected: perf from oe-core is not guaranteed to work with
kernels other than those provided by oe-core. If this cannot be solved by
patching the original recipe (and sending patches to oe-core list), then
you can probably just make a custom perf recipe instead that works for you.

Alex