Installing oprofile on SLES

hofa · 04-21-2009, 05:37 AM

Hi,

I am trying to ./configure xenoprofile (basically a patched oprofile) on SLES 11 but it keeps giving me the following error

Code:

checking libiberty.h usability... no
checking libiberty.h presence... no
checking for libiberty.h... no
checking for cplus_demangle in -liberty... no
configure: error: liberty library not found

Although libiberty.h exists on my system:

Code:

zwarte-sm:~/oprofile-0.9.3 # ls -l /usr/src/debug/binutils-2.19/include/
total 196
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 20 16:27 aout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29396 Aug 17  2008 bfdlink.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 20 16:27 coff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23493 Jan 27  2008 demangle.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16047 Jul  7  2008 dis-asm.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 20 16:27 elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5658 Nov  8  2007 floatformat.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5057 May 10  2005 getopt.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7264 Jul  1  2005 hashtab.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4970 May 10  2005 ieee.h
-rwxrwxrwx 1  644 root 23698 Jun 24  2008 libiberty.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5172 Mar 25  2008 md5.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3960 May 10  2005 objalloc.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20881 May 10  2005 obstack.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 20 16:27 opcode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5643 Jul  7  2008 safe-ctype.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4692 Mar 25  2008 sha1.h

This is my ./configure line:

Code:

./configure --with-binutils=/usr/src/debug/binutils-2.19 --with-kernel-support

I really need to get this thing working so if you have any idea what the problem could be, I'd be really thankful.

knudfl · 05-07-2009, 01:44 PM

Quote:

checking for libiberty.h... no
.....
liberty library not found

: Missing 'binutils-devel'

# zypper in binutils-devel
will provide the files.
.....

hofa · 05-08-2009, 12:58 AM

What I heard, was that the problem exists with the new glibc library (2.9) and some headers that moved (?)

But I'll try your suggestion today, I'll let you know if it works...

hofa · 05-08-2009, 05:09 AM

ok, binutils-devel did the trick, but now I get the following:

Code:

checking for bfd_openr in -lbfd... no
configure: error: bfd library not found

BUT

Code:

SLES11-xen:~/oprofile-0.9.3 # ls -1 /usr/lib/*bfd*
/usr/lib/libbfd.a
/usr/lib/libbfd.la

I also tried the patch on http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--Workar...d23317997.html but I can't seem to get the patch for binutils.m4 to work...

Code:

SLES11-xen:~/oprofile-0.9.3 # patch -p1 < ../oprofile_sles11_binutils.m4.patch 
patching file m4/binutils.m4
Hunk #1 FAILED at 10.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file m4/binutils.m4.rej

And this is the contents of binutils.m4.rej

Code:

*************** AC_CHECK_FUNCS(xmemdup)
*** 10,19 ****
  AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen, LIBS="$LIBS -ldl"; DL_LIB="-ldl", DL_LIB="")
  AC_CHECK_LIB(intl, main, LIBS="$LIBS -lintl"; INTL_LIB="-lintl", INTL_LIB="")
  
- AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_openr,,
   [AC_CHECK_LIB(z, compress,
  dnl Use a different bfd function here so as not to use cached result from above
-  [AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_fdopenr, LIBS="-lbfd -lz $LIBS",
   [AC_MSG_ERROR([bfd library not found])], -lz)
   ],
   [AC_MSG_ERROR([libz library not found; required by libbfd])]) 
--- 10,19 ----
  AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen, LIBS="$LIBS -ldl"; DL_LIB="-ldl", DL_LIB="")
  AC_CHECK_LIB(intl, main, LIBS="$LIBS -lintl"; INTL_LIB="-lintl", INTL_LIB="")
  
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_openr, LIBS="-lbfd $LIBS"; Z_LIB="",
   [AC_CHECK_LIB(z, compress,
  dnl Use a different bfd function here so as not to use cached result from above
+  [AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_fdopenr, LIBS="-lbfd -lz $LIBS"; Z_LIB="-lz",
   [AC_MSG_ERROR([bfd library not found])], -lz)
   ],
   [AC_MSG_ERROR([libz library not found; required by libbfd])])

knudfl · 05-08-2009, 01:45 PM

ls /usr/lib/ | grep libbfd
libbfd-2.18.50.20080409-11.1.so

rpm -ql /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.50.20080409-11.1.so
binutils-2.18.50.20080409-11.1

cd /usr/lib/
# ln -s libbfd-2.18.50.20080409-11.1.so libbfd.so

But it seems that SLES is different from OpenSuse 11.0 ?
No libbfd.a on my Suse 11.0 ( Suse 11.1 has libbfd-2.19.so )

Suggest : compile binutils-2.18.50 > > cd build-binutils
../binutils-2.18/configure --enable-shared
and find libbfd.so in the hidden directory
build-binutils/bfd/.libs and copy to /usr/local/lib/.

Example package with libbfd....
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat...1-6.7.i586.rpm
> > libbfd-2_18-2.18.50.20080409_11.1-6.7.i586.rpm
Provides /usr/lib/libbfd-2.18.50.20080409_11.1.so only.

There is a 'source' file too :
' libbfd-2_18-2.18.50.20080409_11.1-6.7.src.rpm '

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat....1-6.7.src.rpm
To be processed with # rpmbuild -bb libbfd_2_18_50.spec
.....

hofa · 05-10-2009, 08:42 AM

Thank you for all your help, but apparantly I looked over /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.19.so

So I just symlinked /usr/lib64/libbfd.so to that file.

I know symlinking libraries isn't a good practice, but it's mainly for testing purposes and it won't be running on live servers, so it's no big deal if they break.