[PATCH] perf/build: fix broken dependency check for libtracefs

From: Thomas Richter
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 08:40:51 EST


Perf build auto-detects features and packages already installed
for its build. This is done in directory tools/build/feature. This
directory contains small sample programs. When they successfully
compile the necessary prereqs in form of libraries and header
files are present.

Such a check is also done for libtracefs. And this check fails:

Output before:
# rm -f test-libtracefs.bin; make test-libtracefs.bin
gcc -MD -Wall -Werror -o test-libtracefs.bin test-libtracefs.c \
> test-libtracefs.make.output 2>&1 -ltracefs
make: *** [Makefile:211: test-libtracefs.bin] Error 1
# cat test-libtracefs.make.output
In file included from test-libtracefs.c:2:
/usr/include/tracefs/tracefs.h:11:10: fatal error: \
event-parse.h: No such file or directory
11 | #include <event-parse.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
#

The root cause of this compile error is
commit 880885d9c22e ("libtracefs: Remove "traceevent/" from referencing libtraceevent headers")
in the libtracefs project hosted here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/

That mentioned patch removes the traceevent/ directory name from
the include statement, causing the file not to be included even
when the libtraceevent-devel package is installed. This package contains
the file referred to in tracefs/tracefs.h:
# rpm -ql libtraceevent-devel
/usr/include/traceevent
/usr/include/traceevent/event-parse.h <----- here
/usr/include/traceevent/event-utils.h
/usr/include/traceevent/kbuffer.h
/usr/include/traceevent/trace-seq.h
/usr/lib64/libtraceevent.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libtraceevent.pc
#

With this patch the compile succeeds.

Output after:
# rm -f test-libtracefs.bin; make test-libtracefs.bin
gcc -MD -Wall -Werror -o test-libtracefs.bin test-libtracefs.c \
> test-libtracefs.make.output 2>&1 -I/usr/include/traceevent -ltracefs
#

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx
---
tools/build/feature/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/build/feature/Makefile b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
index 0f0aa9b7d7b5..764b0234161f 100644
--- a/tools/build/feature/Makefile
+++ b/tools/build/feature/Makefile
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ $(OUTPUT)test-libtraceevent.bin:
$(BUILD) -ltraceevent

$(OUTPUT)test-libtracefs.bin:
- $(BUILD) -ltracefs
+ $(BUILD) -I/usr/include/traceevent -ltracefs

$(OUTPUT)test-libcrypto.bin:
$(BUILD) -lcrypto
--
2.41.0