Re: [PATCH v5 00/19] Support dynamic opening of capstone/llvm remove BUILD_NONDISTRO
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Aug 23 2025 - 19:34:27 EST
> BUILD_NONDISTRO is used to build perf against the license incompatible
> libbfd and libiberty libraries. As this has been opt-in for nearly 2
> years, commit dd317df07207 ("perf build: Make binutil libraries opt
> in"), remove the code to simplify the code base.
The last time I tried the LLVM stuff was totally broken, couldn't
resolve many things. The only workaround was to go back to the actually
working libbfd. Please don't remove the only working option.
Thanks,
-Andi