Bug 545134 – dev-util/perf: automagic dep on sys-process/numactl, deprecated dep on dev-libs/newt, with USE=-demangle it still links with libbfd-*.so

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description om3i 2015-03-31 10:53:40 UTC]

Automagic dep on sys-process/numactl

Deprecated dep on dev-libs/newt, there is no newt usage in sources, only slang.
>/usr/src/linux/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
># Define NO_NEWT if you do not want TUI support. (deprecated)

With USE=-demangle it still links with libbfd-*.so

Strange dep on sys-process/time.

Also, it would be nice to update to 3.19.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 om3i 2015-03-31 11:06:39 UTC]

Created attachment 400264 [details]
perf_build.log

Also it builds and installs man pages with USE=-doc.

[Comment 2 Andrew Savchenko 2015-04-02 13:33:48 UTC]

1. Please upload your emerge --info.
2. For 3.19 update see bug 544990.
3. USE="doc" is not intended to control man pages, it is intended for extra documentation, like manuals HTML APIs, howtos and so on. Man pages are always installed if available.

[Comment 3 om3i 2015-04-02 15:58:32 UTC]

Created attachment 400410 [details]
emerge --info

>USE="doc" is not intended to control man pages
I'm not suggesting anything, this ebuild is written in such way already, ie:
>if use doc ; then
>...
>   doman Documentation/*.1
>fi

[Comment 4 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2016-04-17 17:42:12 UTC]

... and to complete the list of weird dependency issues:

Despite having USE="-slang -unwind", I get:

Auto-detecting system features:
[...]
...                      libslang: [ on  ]
...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
...            libdw-dwarf-unwind: [ on  ]
[...]

USE="-python" on the other hand is respected.

[Comment 5 Guilherme Amadio 2020-11-19 15:06:57 UTC]

Fixed in newer versions of perf already. The dependency on dev-libs/newt is gone, and the dependency on sys-process/numactl is there.