Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-22 Thread Matthias Klose
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Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-05 Thread Thomas Backlund
Den 5.2.2020 kl. 01:29, skrev Alan Modra: The binutils and gdb projects do not even pretend to a stable ABI or API for libbfd and libopcodes. Particularly not ABI, that gets broken on almost every week. perf and other projects that want to use libbfd or libopcodes are of course welcome to do

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 09:59 +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > The binutils and gdb projects do not even pretend to a stable ABI or > API for libbfd and libopcodes. Particularly not ABI, that gets broken > on almost every week. perf and other projects that want to use libbfd > or libopcodes are of

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-04 Thread Alan Modra
The binutils and gdb projects do not even pretend to a stable ABI or API for libbfd and libopcodes. Particularly not ABI, that gets broken on almost every week. perf and other projects that want to use libbfd or libopcodes are of course welcome to do so, but they then need to deal with the

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-04 Thread Romain Naour
Hi All, Le 04/02/2020 à 16:35, Hagen Paul Pfeifer a écrit : > * Matthias Klose | 2020-02-03 22:29:21 [+0100]: > > [CCing Alan Modra, H.J. Lu, Nick Clifton & Arnaldo] > > Ok, I tried to check what happens: > > - Alan Modra modified the bfd_section_* macros (see commit fd3619828e94a) >

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-04 Thread Hagen Paul Pfeifer
* Matthias Klose | 2020-02-03 22:29:21 [+0100]: [CCing Alan Modra, H.J. Lu, Nick Clifton & Arnaldo] Ok, I tried to check what happens: - Alan Modra modified the bfd_section_* macros (see commit fd3619828e94a) upstream (https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=summary) Or

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-03 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Hagen, On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 22:03:10 +0100 Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > > It seems other people (kernel folks, Stephen) have the identical error as > well: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/30/1005 > Stephen: or is the bug fixed somewhere else? Do you have an workaround? I don't have a workaround, I

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-03 Thread Matthias Klose
[CCing to binutils] On 2/3/20 10:03 PM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > CCed: Stephen Rothwell > > * Matthias Klose | 2020-02-03 21:10:14 [+0100]: > > Hey Matthias > >> please can you reassign that to the appropriate package? both libopcodes and >> libbfd have non-public interfaces. If you use

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-03 Thread Hagen Paul Pfeifer
CCed: Stephen Rothwell * Matthias Klose | 2020-02-03 21:10:14 [+0100]: Hey Matthias >please can you reassign that to the appropriate package? both libopcodes and >libbfd have non-public interfaces. If you use those, please adopt to these. I don't get it: `apt-file search /usr/include/bfd.h`

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 21:10 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 2/1/20 10:53 AM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > > Package: binutils-dev > > Version: 2.33.90.20200122-2 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > linux perf build fails with current version of binutils-dev: > > please can

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-03 Thread Matthias Klose
On 2/1/20 10:53 AM, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > Package: binutils-dev > Version: 2.33.90.20200122-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > linux perf build fails with current version of binutils-dev: please can you reassign that to the appropriate package? both libopcodes and libbfd

Bug#950414: binutils-dev: failed to build linux perf (tools/perf) due to missing functions

2020-02-01 Thread Hagen Paul Pfeifer
Package: binutils-dev Version: 2.33.90.20200122-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, linux perf build fails with current version of binutils-dev: Steps to produce: $ cd /path/to/linux/tools/perf $ make Everything worked with the previous(?) version of binutils-dev: 2.33.1-6. Relevant