Re: [PATCH v21 00/20] perf, tools: Add support for PMU events in JSON format

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

oops, Jiri wasn't CCed, fixing it...

Em Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:28:20PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:02:58PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 08:37:53PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > yeah, changing that typedef + true def to plain include <stdbool.h>
> > > makes it progress to the next failure, which is in cross compilation
> > > environments, such as using fedora 24 + the Android NDK to try to build
> > > a ARM android binary.
> 
> > 14 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: FAIL
> >   GEN      /tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.c
> > /bin/sh: /tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/jevents: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> > pmu-events/Build:11: recipe for target '/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.c' failed
> > make[2]: *** [/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.c] Error 126
> > Makefile.perf:461: recipe for target '/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events-in.o' failed
> > make[1]: *** [/tmp/build/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events-in.o] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> Jiri, we need something similar to scripts/Makefile.host :-\
> 
> Calling it a day, perhaps, for now, we should just detect that it is a
> corss compile env (CROSS_COMPILE is set) and exclude all this code from
> the build, emitting a warning.
> 
> I left what I did at the tmp.perf/core branch of my repo at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git.
> 
> - Arnaldo