Fedora binutils has been patched to show "other info" for a symbol at the end of the line. This was done in order to support unmaintained scripts that would break with the extra info. [1]
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/binutils/c/b8265c46f7ddae23a792ee8306fbaaeacba83bf8 This in turn has been done to fix the build of ruby, because of checksec. [2] Thanks Michael Ellerman for the pointer. [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479302 As libbpf Makefile is not unmaintained, we can simply deal with either output format, by just removing the "other info" field, as it always comes inside brackets. Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> Fixes: 3464afdf11f9 (libbpf: Fix readelf output parsing on powerpc with recent binutils) Reported-by: Justin Forbes <jmfor...@linuxtx.org> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@canonical.com> --- tools/lib/bpf/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile index defae23a0169..23ae06c43d08 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ TAGS_PROG := $(if $(shell which etags 2>/dev/null),etags,ctags) GLOBAL_SYM_COUNT = $(shell readelf -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) | \ cut -d "@" -f1 | sed 's/_v[0-9]_[0-9]_[0-9].*//' | \ + sed 's/\[.*\]//' | \ awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$NF}' | \ sort -u | wc -l) VERSIONED_SYM_COUNT = $(shell readelf -s --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so | \ @@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ check_abi: $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so "versioned in $(VERSION_SCRIPT)." >&2; \ readelf -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) | \ cut -d "@" -f1 | sed 's/_v[0-9]_[0-9]_[0-9].*//' | \ + sed 's/\[.*\]//' | \ awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$NF}'| \ sort -u > $(OUTPUT)libbpf_global_syms.tmp; \ readelf -s --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so | \ -- 2.24.0
