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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] perf tools: Enable LIBBABELTRACE by default
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 12:24:33PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

SNIP

> 
> Works:
> 
> [acme@jouet perf]$ ldd ~/bin/perf | grep babel
> 	libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1 => /lib64/libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1 (0x00007fcb688d0000)
> 	libbabeltrace.so.1 => /lib64/libbabeltrace.so.1 (0x00007fcb67e92000)
> [acme@jouet perf]$ rpm -q libbabeltrace-devel
> libbabeltrace-devel-1.5.3-1.fc27.x86_64
> [acme@jouet perf]$
> 
> But then, if we show:
> 
> Auto-detecting system features:
> ...                         dwarf: [ on  ]
> ...            dwarf_getlocations: [ on  ]
> ...                         glibc: [ on  ]
> ...                          gtk2: [ on  ]
> ...                      libaudit: [ on  ]
> ...                        libbfd: [ on  ]
> ...                        libelf: [ on  ]
> ...                       libnuma: [ on  ]
> ...        numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on  ]
> ...                       libperl: [ on  ]
> ...                     libpython: [ on  ]
> ...                      libslang: [ on  ]
> ...                     libcrypto: [ on  ]
> ...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
> ...            libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
> ...                          zlib: [ on  ]
> ...                          lzma: [ on  ]
> ...                     get_cpuid: [ on  ]
> ...                           bpf: [ on  ]
> 
> Shoudln't we tell the user that babeltrace was linked too?

the logic is just to simply display the state of features
which we provide in FEATURE_DISPLAY variable, which is
believed to be common and important enough to display
status about

maybe we could display it with 'make VF=1' output?

jirka