samples don't build on v4.18

[Joel Fernandes]

Hi,
When building BPF samples on v4.18, I get the following errors:

$ cd samples/bpf/
$ make

Auto-detecting system features:
...                        libelf: [ OFF ]
...                           bpf: [ OFF ]

No libelf found
Makefile:213: recipe for target 'elfdep' failed
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I bissected it down to commit 5f9380572b4bb24f60cd492b1

Author: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu May 10 10:24:39 2018 -0700

    samples: bpf: compile and link against full libbpf
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Checking out a kernel before this commit makes the samples build. Also I do
have libelf on my system.

Any thoughts on this issue?

thank you,

- Joel