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

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2022-12-07T14:33:14Z

Em Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:31:38AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> 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).

No luck:

[perfbuilder@five edge]$ db
acmel/linux-perf-tools-build-alpine:edge
STEP 1/8: FROM alpine:edge
STEP 2/8: MAINTAINER Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
STEP 3/8: RUN apk add --no-cache make gcc g++ flex bison curl bc findutils libcap-dev mandoc clang clang-dev llvm llvm-dev libc-dev linux-headers libdwarf-dev musl-obstack-dev argp-standalone elfutils-dev openssl-dev slang-dev gtk+3.0-dev perl-dev python3-dev py3-setuptools binutils-dev xz-dev numactl-dev libunwind-dev zstd-dev libcap-dev openjdk8 xmlto asciidoc cmake asciidoc xmlto libtraceevent-dev
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
libtraceevent-dev (no such package):
required by: world[libtraceevent-dev]
error building at STEP "RUN apk add --no-cache make gcc g++ flex bison curl bc findutils libcap-dev mandoc clang clang-dev llvm llvm-dev libc-dev linux-headers libdwarf-dev musl-obstack-dev argp-standalone elfutils-dev openssl-dev slang-dev gtk+3.0-dev perl-dev python3-dev py3-setuptools binutils-dev xz-dev numactl-dev libunwind-dev zstd-dev libcap-dev openjdk8 xmlto asciidoc cmake asciidoc xmlto libtraceevent-dev": error while running runtime: exit status 1
[perfbuilder@five edge]$ vi Dockerfile
[perfbuilder@five edge]$ db
acmel/linux-perf-tools-build-alpine:edge
STEP 1/8: FROM alpine:edge
STEP 2/8: MAINTAINER Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
STEP 3/8: RUN apk add --no-cache make gcc g++ flex bison curl bc findutils libcap-dev mandoc clang clang-dev llvm llvm-dev libc-dev linux-headers libdwarf-dev musl-obstack-dev argp-standalone elfutils-dev openssl-dev slang-dev gtk+3.0-dev perl-dev python3-dev py3-setuptools binutils-dev xz-dev numactl-dev libunwind-dev zstd-dev libcap-dev openjdk8 xmlto asciidoc cmake asciidoc xmlto traceevent-dev
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
traceevent-dev (no such package):
required by: world[traceevent-dev]
error building at STEP "RUN apk add --no-cache make gcc g++ flex bison curl bc findutils libcap-dev mandoc clang clang-dev llvm llvm-dev libc-dev linux-headers libdwarf-dev musl-obstack-dev argp-standalone elfutils-dev openssl-dev slang-dev gtk+3.0-dev perl-dev python3-dev py3-setuptools binutils-dev xz-dev numactl-dev libunwind-dev zstd-dev libcap-dev openjdk8 xmlto asciidoc cmake asciidoc xmlto traceevent-dev": error while running runtime: exit status 1
[perfbuilder@five edge]$