Re: [PATCH] tools/rtla: Explicitly list libtraceevent dependency

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>]

On 1/10/23 14:18, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> The current libtracefs.pkg file lists the dependency on
> libtraceevent ("pkg-config --libs libtracefs" -> "-ltracefs
> -ltraceevent").
> 
> Dan Nicholson's Guide to pkg-config[1] stats that "Libs: The link
> flags specific to this package and any required libraries that don't
> support pkg-config". Thus the current libtracefs.pkg is not correct.
> 
> rtla is depending on libtraceevent but it doesn't express this in
> 'pkg-config' part to retrieve the correct build flags.
> 
> In order to be able to update the "Libs:" section in the libtracefs
> project we need to list the dependency explicitly to avoid future linker
> failures.

I am ok with it. Steve?

-- Daniel