Re: perf build failure with newer glibc headers

Jiri Olsa
2019-06-13T17:16:57Z

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While doing some build experiments, I found a compile failure with perf and jvmti:
>
> BUILDSTDERR: gcc -Wp,-MD,./.xsk.o.d -Wp,-MT,xsk.o -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-jvmti/jvmti_agent.c:48:21: error: static declaration of 'gettid' follows non-static declaration
> BUILDSTDERR: 48 | static inline pid_t gettid(void)
> BUILDSTDERR: | ^~~~~~
> BUILDSTDERR: In file included from /usr/include/unistd.h:1170,
> BUILDSTDERR: from jvmti/jvmti_agent.c:33:
> BUILDSTDERR: /usr/include/bits/unistd_ext.h:40:16: note: previous declaration of 'gettid' was here
> BUILDSTDERR: 40 | extern __pid_t gettid (void) __THROW;
> BUILDSTDERR: | ^~~~~~
>
>
> This is with the newer glibc headers that came into Fedora earlier this week
> (glibc-2.29.9000-27.fc31) It looks like the newer headers now define gettid
> so the in file gettid no longer works. Note this was a custom build with
> jvmti enabled as regular Fedora doesn't have it enabled which is why this
> wasn't reported elsewhere.

hum, I guess we need some version macro conditions
if that's the case

so this glibc version is available on rawhide now?
I'll try to get some server with it

thanks,
jirka

>
> I don't know enough about either the glibc headers or perf to make a suggestion
> on how to fix this but I'm happy to test.
>
> Thanks,
> Laura