From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jolsa@redhat.com (Jiri Olsa) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:27:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2 01/10] perf tools: Integrating the CoreSight decoding library In-Reply-To: <20180118141423.GE18383@kernel.org> References: <1516039994-314-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <1516039994-314-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <20180116121500.GB26643@krava> <20180117080640.GD6183@krava> <20180118134139.GC18383@kernel.org> <20180118135948.GA2940@krava> <20180118141423.GE18383@kernel.org> Message-ID: <20180118142743.GD2940@krava> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:14:23AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:41:39AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > Shouldn't libopencsd be treated like libbabeltrace was before > > > the required version was widely available in distros? > > > > I.e. these csets should have the rationale for that: > > > > Enabling it once it became widely available: > > > > 24787afbcd01 ("perf tools: Enable LIBBABELTRACE by default") > > > > Disabling it because we would need to get things from tarballs/git > > > repos, build it in our machines, as requested by Ingo: > > > > 6ab2b762befd ("perf build: Disable libbabeltrace check by default") > > > > I think at that time we did not have a way to hide the check, > > now we have FEATURE_DISPLAY seprated so we can still check > > for it, but users won't be bothered with [ FAIL ] output > > Ok, users won't be bothered with the fail output, but we tried hard to > get the build fast by having it only test for things that are widely > available, right? I.e. if we know something is not widely available then > we better not try to build with it and get faster builds, wasn't that > part of the rationale in the babeltrace case? > > If one has to build from sources some library, then its not a problem to > have in the make command line a LIBOPENCSD=1 switch? right, we can do it like that jirka