We keep having bug reports that when users build perf on their own, but they don't install some needed libraries such as libelf, libbfd/libibery.
The perf can build, but it is missing important functionality. This patch provides a new option '-vv' which will print the compiled-in status of libraries. For example: $ ./perf -vv perf version 4.13.rc5.g9b7a81b dwarf: [ on ] dwarf_getlocations: [ on ] glibc: [ on ] gtk2: [ on ] libaudit: [ off ] libbfd: [ on ] libelf: [ on ] libnuma: [ on ] numa_num_possible_cpus: [ on ] libperl: [ on ] libpython: [ on ] libslang: [ on ] libcrypto: [ on ] libunwind: [ on ] libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on ] zlib: [ on ] lzma: [ on ] get_cpuid: [ on ] bpf: [ on ] Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao....@linux.intel.com> --- tools/perf/perf.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c index 1b3fc8e..300c83d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/perf.c +++ b/tools/perf/perf.c @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = { { "top", cmd_top, 0 }, { "annotate", cmd_annotate, 0 }, { "version", cmd_version, 0 }, + { "version2", cmd_version2, 0 }, { "script", cmd_script, 0 }, { "sched", cmd_sched, 0 }, #ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT @@ -190,6 +191,11 @@ static int handle_options(const char ***argv, int *argc, int *envchanged) break; } + if (!strcmp(cmd, "-vv")) { + (*argv)[0] = "--version2"; + break; + } + /* * Check remaining flags. */ -- 2.7.4