perf tools: MULTILIB install issues. was Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Emit more precise message for missing glibc static library

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:50:31AM -0400, Don Zickus escreveu:
> I am hijacking your thread for another Makefile problem.  It seems like
> you were doing some cleanups here, so I wanted to throw another problem at
> you. :-)

Yeah, I skimmed that discussion about our home grown autoconf
replacement 8-)
 
> It seems the fedora-kernel guys found a multilib packaging problem and
> posted a patch to clean it up.  It is from Kyle McMartin
> (copy-n-pasted).
 
> +++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
> @@ -621,8 +621,12 @@ endif
>  ifeq ($(IS_X86_64),1)
>  lib = lib64
>  else
> +ifdef MULTILIBDIR
> +lib = $(MULTILIBDIR)
> +else
>  lib = lib
>  endif
> +endif
>  libdir = $(prefix)/$(lib)
 
>  # Shell quote (do not use $(call) to accommodate ancient setups);

> Not sure if this is the right way to do this or if you had a better
> solution.

I'm unsure as well, but it looks like something that suits the needs of
distros, right? Anyone?

- Arnaldo