[OE-core] [discussion] perf: specify SLANG_INC dir for perf

[Liang Li]

On 2012-08-17 18:53, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 18:00 +0800, Liang Li wrote:
> > I am totally confused, you mentioned 'general kernel do_install', I
> > assume it's oe-core kernel.bbclass concept. Then you mentioned 'get
> > the fix upstream in the mainline kernel', how could that happen?
> > 
> > We are discussing about the solution to 'fix the compile warning to
> > error' stuff that triggered by the '-I/usr/include/slang', right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >  We do not necessarily have to change recipe to fix it since the issue
> > is not introduced by the recipe, the hard coded '-I/usr/include/slang'
> > in the Makefile cause the issue, we can fix the root cause by kernel
> > patch(other than just comment the line out). I see your previous patch
> > to kernel, by comment out the '-I/usr/include/slang' line in the
> > Makefile, is the same behavior, but we won't have the change(comment
> > out -I.. in Makefile) upstream to mainline, right?
> 
> I am suggesting that firstly, someone send a patch to the mainline
> kernel which changes -I/usr/include/slang to -I=/usr/include/slang in
> that Makefile.
> 
> Secondly, I'm suggesting that we add a line to kernel_do_install() in
> kernel.bbclass which does a sed on the Makefile as installed into
> $kerneldir which changes -I/usr/include/slang to -I=/usr/include/slang.
> 
> We can then drop the patch I added to the linux-yocto kernels.
> 
> This is all that should be needed, it should fix all the issues people
> have reported in a way that is acceptable to everyone.
> 

Ah, I see what you mean now. But we have push acceptable kernel patch
to linux-yocto kernel first, and propose it to mainline kernel in the
meantime. With proper kernel patch in linux-yocto kernel(s), we does
not have to do the second above, right? :)

And I see what you mean here, let me paste the revised change to
kernel here:

commit 5236988
Author: Liang Li <liang.li at windriver.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 1 14:31:24 2012 +0800

    perf: add SLANG_INC for slang.h
    
    Previously we hard code '-I/usr/include/slang' to CFLAGS to works with
    some hosts that has /usr/include/slang/slang.h other than
    /usr/include/slang.h like Fedora. This will cause compiling warnings
    in some cases.
    
    We could downgrade the priority of the default hard coded path, and
    provide user a chance to specify correct location of slang.h then user
    could specify SLANG_INC to avoid compile warnings like the
    '/usr/include/slang' is not exists etc.
    
    Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.li at windriver.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index b7a7a87..e403c36 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -496,8 +496,10 @@ else
 		msg := $(warning newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install newt-devel or libnewt-dev);
 		BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_NEWT_SUPPORT
 	else
-		# Fedora has /usr/include/slang/slang.h, but ubuntu /usr/include/slang.h
-		BASIC_CFLAGS += -I/usr/include/slang
+		# Some releases like Fedora has /usr/include/slang/slang.h other than /usr/include/slang.h
+		SLANG_INC ?= -idirafter =/usr/include/slang
+		BASIC_CFLAGS += $(SLANG_INC)
+
 		EXTLIBS += -lnewt -lslang
 		LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)ui/setup.o
 		LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)ui/browser.o

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Thanks for clarification.

Regards,
		Liang Li

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>