Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2] bpftool: Allow explicitly skip llvm dependency

[Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>]

2026-02-03 17:17 UTC-0800 ~ Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>

>> But if really you want to do this, at least let's do it fully and give
>> more control for the disassembler dependencies: I think it shouldn't be
>> just LLVM in this case, there should be a way to opt-out from libbfd as
>> well, which was problematic for other reasons in the first place, and
>> probably some mechanism to tell whether to use libbfd or LLVM for the
>> disassembler when the two are available on the machine.
> 
> Yeah, absolutely, that makes sense. Mykyta, do you mind looking in
> what's the most sensible way to do what Quentin asks? Should we just
> have NO_LLVM and NO_BFD switches and take them both into account. If
> LLVM or BFD is not explicitly opted-out-from then we'll just prefere
> LLVM over BFD?


I'd be OK with that

Quentin