Re: [ALMOST ready] Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf build: Use libtraceevent from the system

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-12-07T14:32:06Z

Em Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:21:18AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> One thing I'm doing now is testing with the container builds, and I'm
> afraid we have to delay deleting the in-kernel old copy of
> tools/lib/traceevent till distros that don't ship libtraceevent as a
> separate package are EOLed.
>
> We need in those cases to fallback to tools/lib/traceevent/, with a
> warning probably.
>
> I'm now updating my container build recipes to install
> libtraceevent-devel, when available, which isn't the case, for instance,
> for almalinux:8, the first I tried updating.

No distro I tested so far has a package for libtracevent in is default
repositories:

almalinux 8 and 9 and the recently released Alpine Linux 3.17 (at least
I hadn't a recipe for that one, will try with edge).

- Arnaldo