Re: perf build broken looking for bpf/{libbpf,bpf}.h after merge with upstream

[Namhyung Kim]

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:13 AM Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Nov 4, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Em Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:56:26AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko escreveu:
> >> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:49 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>> Em Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 02:37:57PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
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> >>>> Hi Song,
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> >>>>      I just did a merge with upstream and I'm getting this:
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> >>>>  LINK    /tmp/build/perf/plugins/plugin_scsi.so
> >>>>  INSTALL trace_plugins
> >>>
> >>> To clarify, the command line to build perf that results in this problem
> >>> is:
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> >>>  make -k BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 CORESIGHT=1 PYTHON=python3 O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin
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> >> Oh, I dropped CORESIGN and left BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 and yeah, I see the
> >> build failure. I do think now that it's related to the recent Makefile
> >> revamp effort. Quentin, PTAL.
> >>
> >> On the side note, why BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 is not a default, we might have
> >> caught this sooner. Is there any reason not to flip the default?
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> > I asked Song in the past about this, and asked again on another reply to
> > this thread, I think it should be the default.
> >
> > Song, Namhyung? You're the skel guys (so far) :-)
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> Yeah, let's make it default.

Then it'd require 'clang' for the perf build.  Maybe we can check
the availability of the compiler and disable it back if not.

Thanks,
Namhyung