[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] oprofile 0.9.8: fix compilation on powerpc

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Mar 24 08:45:46 UTC 2013


Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:03:17 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> The oprofile build was broken on powerpc since version 0.9.8.
> This was detected in several autobuilds, like
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/6f6c02d18495907d50fcdfc6003ac20d493c55fe/
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni had some fixes pending in his own tree, and this patch is
> partially based on this work (credits to him). Here is an overview:
> - I took over (and fixed) the oprofile.mk changes, except for the powerpc-
>   specific part. For powerpc, there is a new dependency to libpfm4.
> - I reimported those Yocto patches that were specific to the ppc build
>   issues, but left out the other ones. Those can be added in separate
>   commits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>

Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
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