Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] perf tools: fix perf build with ARCH=x86_64

[Jiri Olsa]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 07:43:15PM -0700, Jiada Wang wrote:
> Hello Jiri
> 
> On 04/09/2017 10:27 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:25:44PM -0700, jiada_wang@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Jiada Wang<jiada_wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > with commit: 0a943cb10ce78 (tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable)
> > > the following build failure is seen when build with ARCH=x86_64
> > is that described somewhere as a valid building interface?
> > I never use it so I have no idea.. would you describe your
> > build env/process?
> I used "ARCH=x86_64 make -C tools perf V=1" to build perf for x86_64 ARCH.

you're on x86 machine right? I don't see CROSS_COMPILE being used..

what's the purpose of the ARCH var setup then?

> 
> > > In file included from util/event.c:2:0:
> > >      tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h:4:27: fatal error: uapi/asm/mman.h: No such file or directory
> > >      compilation terminated.
> > > 
> > > fix this issue by use SRCARCH instead of ARCH in perf.
> > please describe also the the issue itself in the changelog, not just the fix
> I will update changelog with detail information about the issue in v4
> > 
> > 
> > so objtool is using SRCARCH this way, I guess it's fine
> > 
> > if we go this way, you also need to change the pmu-events/Build
> > and there's some comment using $(ARCH) in util/header.c
> will update pmu-events/Build in v4

I'll check

thanks,
jirka