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authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>2016-05-16 15:31:07 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-05-17 10:42:46 +0200
commit2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8 (patch)
tree70f586fcf046be12f4b62475ef2fb53ff8da36ce /tools/objtool
parentbc231d9ede99518b67a77544d9084f15b898fe2e (diff)
downloadlinux-2e51f26245701cb28f154552836b7807159088a8.tar.bz2
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/Makefile4
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/elf.h5
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;