Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] perf: build: Only link libebl.a for old libdw

From: Leo Yan
Date: Fri Jun 07 2024 - 09:36:03 EST


On 6/6/24 18:40, Namhyung Kim wrote:

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diff --git a/tools/build/feature/Makefile b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
index 6f52f892f9a3..2f4cfb7b8c14 100644
--- a/tools/build/feature/Makefile
+++ b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
@@ -159,7 +159,17 @@ $(OUTPUT)test-libopencsd.bin:

DWARFLIBS := -ldw
ifeq ($(findstring -static,${LDFLAGS}),-static)
-DWARFLIBS += -lelf -lebl -lz -llzma -lbz2
+ DWARFLIBS += -lelf -lz -llzma -lbz2
+
+ LIBDW_VERSION := $(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --modversion libdw)
+ LIBDW_VERSION_1 := $(word 1, $(subst ., ,$(LIBDW_VERSION)))
+ LIBDW_VERSION_2 := $(word 2, $(subst ., ,$(LIBDW_VERSION)))
+
+ # Elfutils merged libebl.a into libdw.a starting from version 0.177,
+ # Link libebl.a only if libdw is older than this version.
+ ifeq ($(shell test $(LIBDW_VERSION_2) -lt 177; echo $$?),0)
+ DWARFLIBS += -lebl
+ endif
endif

Is there a better way to collect required libraries using pkg-config?
I guess that's what we want to with the pkg-config in the first place.
Maybe `pkg-config --print-requires-private libdw` ?

Unfortunately, `pkg-config --print-requires-private libdw` does not work for the libebl.a after checked on Debian:buster.

# pkg-config --modversion libdw
0.176

# pkg-config --print-requires-private libdw
zlib
liblzma

# pkg-config --libs-only-l libdw
-ldw -lelf

# ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdw.so
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff733e3000)
libelf.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libelf.so.1 (0x0000702e24ec6000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x0000702e24ec1000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x0000702e24ea3000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x0000702e24e7b000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x0000702e24e68000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x0000702e24ca8000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000702e24f3e000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000702e24c85000)


I think libdw.pc cannot reflect the required dependencies, we still need to use a way liked in this patch (it is a bit ugly :) to link '-lebl'.

Thanks,
Leo