[Buildroot] elfutils and the perf userspace tool

[Bryan Hundven]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Bogdan Radulescu
<bogdan_radulescu99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
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> I am using buildroot for generating a distro for ARM. I am able to add additional packages to buildroot or to use arm-linux-gcc directly to compile simple C programs.
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> Still I haven't yet understood how to cross compile the perf userspace tool and I think it would be a very nice addition to buildroot.
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> The perf tool requires elfutils and the kernel sources it comes with.
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> My first problem is that elfutils will not successfully compile, as you can see here:
> http://pastie.org/pastes/5474687/text
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> My elfutils.mk file looks like this http://pastie.org/pastes/5474697/text
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> Please tell me how do I move further from this.
>
> Thanks,
> Bogdan
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I forgot to cc buildroot at ... eh.

Original response:

I think you need the argp-standalone, as I don't think uclibc provides libargp.

-Bryan