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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> | 2016-05-16 15:31:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-05-17 10:42:46 +0200 |
| commit | 2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 70f586fcf046be12f4b62475ef2fb53ff8da36ce /tools/objtool | |
| parent | bc231d9ede99518b67a77544d9084f15b898fe2e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8.tar.gz lwn-2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8.zip | |
objtool: Allow building with older libelf
The switch to elf_getshdr{num,strndx} post-dates the oldest tool chain
the kernel is supposed to be able to build with, so try to cope with
such an environment.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for v4.6
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/732dae6872b7ff187d94f22bb699a12849d3fe04.1463430618.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/Makefile | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/objtool/elf.h | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile index 6765c7e949f3..f094f3c4ed84 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/Makefile +++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ INCLUDES := -I$(srctree)/tools/include CFLAGS += -Wall -Werror $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -g $(INCLUDES) LDFLAGS += -lelf $(LIBSUBCMD) +# Allow old libelf to be used: +elfshdr := $(shell echo '\#include <libelf.h>' | $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -x c -E - | grep elf_getshdr) +CFLAGS += $(if $(elfshdr),,-DLIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED) + AWK = awk export srctree OUTPUT CFLAGS ARCH AWK include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/elf.h index 7f3e00a2f907..aa1ff6596684 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.h +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/hashtable.h> +#ifdef LIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED +# define elf_getshdrnum elf_getshnum +# define elf_getshdrstrndx elf_getshstrndx +#endif + struct section { struct list_head list; GElf_Shdr sh; |