Re: Compiler flags for libapi and libtraceevent

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Sep 13 2018 - 04:04:43 EST


On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 04:06:46AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I noticed that tools/lib/api/Makefile has these conditional
> assignments, similar to tools/perf/Makefile.config:
>
> ifeq ($(DEBUG),0)
> ifeq ($(CC_NO_CLANG), 0)
> CFLAGS += -O3
> else
> CFLAGS += -O6
> endif
> endif
>
> ifeq ($(DEBUG),0)
> CFLAGS += -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> endif
>
> But it doesn't set DEBUG to 0 by default, and nothing under tools/perf
> exports its value of CFLAGS or DEBUG.

hum, AFAICS tools/perf/Makefile.perf exports CFLAGS:

export srctree OUTPUT RM CC CXX LD AR CFLAGS CXXFLAGS V BISON FLEX AWK

jirka

>
> tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile doesn't seem to have any logic to enable
> optimisation or Fortify.
>
> Shouldn't these libraries both have optimisations and Fortify turned on
> by default, like perf itself?
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
>