Re: [RFC][PATCH] ftrace/scripts: Work around for addition of metag magic but not relocations

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri,  8 Jul 2016 12:18:50 -0700
Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> glibc recently did a sync up (94e73c95d9b5 "elf.h: Sync with the gabi
> webpage") that added a #define for EM_METAG but did not add relocations
> 
> This triggers build errors:
> 
> scripts/recordmcount.c: In function 'do_file':
> scripts/recordmcount.c:466:28: error: 'R_METAG_ADDR32' undeclared (first use in this function)
>   case EM_METAG:  reltype = R_METAG_ADDR32;
>                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> scripts/recordmcount.c:466:28: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> scripts/recordmcount.c:468:20: error: 'R_METAG_NONE' undeclared (first use in this function)
>      rel_type_nop = R_METAG_NONE;
>                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Work around this change with some more #ifdefery for the relocations.

Looks fine to me. I'll pull it in, and this probably should go stable
too.

-- Steve

> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I hit this while testing with a newer glibc. I'm not sure what the policy is
> about glibc, so this might just serve as an FYI for anyone else who
> is working on the bleeding edge.
> 
> Fedora bug is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1354034 for the
> curious.
> ---