[PATCH] perf tools: Check libunwind for availability of dwarf parsing feature

Jean Pihet jean.pihet at linaro.org
Fri Sep 13 13:19:06 EDT 2013


Hi Will,

On 13 September 2013 19:15, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:08:41PM +0100, Jean Pihet wrote:
>> The newly added dwarf unwinding feature [1] requires:
>> . a recent version (>= 1.1) of libunwind,
>> . libunwind to be configured with --enable-debug-frame.
>>
>> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1598951.html
>>
>> Add the corresponding API test in the feature check list.
>
> Any reason not to merge this in with the third patch in original series? I
> don't think it's been picked up by anybody yet, so it would make sense to
> repost with this fixup after the merge window.
Yes you are right
Will repost with this patch folded into the third patch, or as a
fourth patch. Any preference?

Thx,
Jean

>
> Will



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