[OE-core] perf on older kernels

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
> <B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2012 10:11 PM, "Bruce Ashfield" <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
>>> <B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
>>> > I've had to fix / hack the perf_3.4.bb recipe to get it building on my
>>> > older kernel. Should we add perf_3.0.bb recipes in oe-core or my own
>>> > layer? Or try to keep one recipe working for all versions? I have no
>>> > strong opinions.
>>>
>>> I'd prefer one recipe. Liang sent another proposal earlier for a fix
>>> that should make
>>> it work on all kernels. Just waiting to hear on that at the moment.
>>
>> I've actually got other issues...
>
> Did you post the error and I missed it .. I block marked quite a few email read
> earlier :) In that case, we can factor out common code to a .inc and keep the
> changes between versions as small as possible.

I have not posted it yet.. but it looks something like this so far...
not sure about this fix yet: https://gist.github.com/3352962

diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf_3.4.bb b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/per
index 505c7b8..ff8d281 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf_3.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/perf/perf_3.4.bb
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ B = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}-${PV}"
 SCRIPTING_DEFINES = "${@perf_feature_enabled('perf-scripting', '', 'NO_LIBPERL=
 TUI_DEFINES = "${@perf_feature_enabled('perf-tui', '', 'NO_NEWT=1',d)}"

+export LDFLAGS = "-ldl -lutil"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = \
                '-C ${S}/tools/perf \
                O=${B} \
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE = \
                AR="${AR}" \
                prefix=/usr \
                NO_GTK2=1 ${TUI_DEFINES} NO_DWARF=1 ${SCRIPTING_DEFINES} \
+               V=1 \
                '

 do_compile() {
@@ -71,7 +73,8 @@ do_compile() {

 do_install() {
        oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install
-       if [ "${@perf_feature_enabled('perf-scripting', 1, 0, d)}" = "1" ]; then
+       # we are checking for this make target to be compatible with older perf
+       if [ "${@perf_feature_enabled('perf-scripting', 1, 0, d)}" = "1" -a $(gr
                oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install-python_ext
        fi
 }

-M

>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>>
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>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
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