Re: [PATCH v1] perf build: Move libopcode disasm tests to BUILD_NONDISTRO

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Oct 03 2025 - 15:19:04 EST


On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 07:39:28PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> The disasm feature tests feature-disassembler-four-args and
> feature-disassembler-init-styled link against libopcodes part of
> binutils which is license incompatible (GPLv3) with perf. Moving these
> tests out of the common config will help improve build time.

Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/Makefile.config | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
> index 6e7c057b8ecf..0d4a62869855 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
> @@ -933,6 +933,14 @@ ifdef BUILD_NONDISTRO
> else
> $(warning Old version of libbfd/binutils things like PE executable profiling will not be available)
> endif
> +
> + ifeq ($(feature-disassembler-four-args), 1)
> + CFLAGS += -DDISASM_FOUR_ARGS_SIGNATURE
> + endif
> +
> + ifeq ($(feature-disassembler-init-styled), 1)
> + CFLAGS += -DDISASM_INIT_STYLED
> + endif
> endif
>
> ifndef NO_LIBLLVM
> @@ -1024,14 +1032,6 @@ ifdef HAVE_KVM_STAT_SUPPORT
> CFLAGS += -DHAVE_KVM_STAT_SUPPORT
> endif
>
> -ifeq ($(feature-disassembler-four-args), 1)
> - CFLAGS += -DDISASM_FOUR_ARGS_SIGNATURE
> -endif
> -
> -ifeq ($(feature-disassembler-init-styled), 1)
> - CFLAGS += -DDISASM_INIT_STYLED
> -endif
> -
> ifeq (${IS_64_BIT}, 1)
> ifndef NO_PERF_READ_VDSO32
> $(call feature_check,compile-32)
> --
> 2.51.0.618.g983fd99d29-goog