Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:20:48 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc |
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On Sat, Aug 01 2009, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Building the perf tool is somewhat involved on sparc64 > > > though, since 64-bit versions of zlib/libelf/bfd aren't > > > directly available (at least on debian 5.x). But once you > > > get there, it runs :-). Would it be easier/functional > > > to build 32-bit userland perf instead? > > > > Same is true on ppc64, btw. How are others handling this? > > The requirement for libz was removed, so up until recently we only needed > a 64bit version of elfutils which is easy to build. > > It looks like we now have a requirement on binutils which is considerably > more painful to build. One option is to make the bfd requirement optional, all > you lose would be the ability to see c++ demangled names I think.
Right, binutils is the ugly one. I got a libbfd.so built for both ppc and sparc, but it wasn't just a make && make install job. Personally I could not care less about losing c++ demangled name support, so that approach sounds fine to me :-)
-- Jens Axboe
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