Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] perf tools: fix perf build with ARCH=x86_64

[Jiada Wang]

Hello Jiri

On 04/09/2017 10:27 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:25:44PM -0700, jiada_wang@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Jiada Wang<jiada_wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > with commit: 0a943cb10ce78 (tools build: Add HOSTARCH Makefile variable)
> > the following build failure is seen when build with ARCH=x86_64
> is that described somewhere as a valid building interface?
> I never use it so I have no idea.. would you describe your
> build env/process?
I used "ARCH=x86_64 make -C tools perf V=1" to build perf for x86_64 ARCH.

> > In file included from util/event.c:2:0:
> >      tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h:4:27: fatal error: uapi/asm/mman.h: No such file or directory
> >      compilation terminated.
> >
> > fix this issue by use SRCARCH instead of ARCH in perf.
> please describe also the the issue itself in the changelog, not just the fix
I will update changelog with detail information about the issue in v4
> so objtool is using SRCARCH this way, I guess it's fine
>
> if we go this way, you also need to change the pmu-events/Build
> and there's some comment using $(ARCH) in util/header.c
will update pmu-events/Build in v4
> thanks,
> jirka
Thanks,
Jiada