Re: Question about compiling oprofile

Thank you Will.

I will try some work-arounds according to your suggestions.

Thanks.
- Wei-Fan

2016-02-18 7:14 GMT-07:00 William Cohen <[email protected]>:

> On 02/16/2016 07:54 PM, Wei-Fan Chiang wrote:
> > Hello Will,
> >
> > Here are some information about the environment I am using oprofile:
> >
> > OS: Ubuntu 12.04
> > CPU: Intel Xeon E5645
> > GCC and G++ verison: 4.8.1
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Wei-Fan
>
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if some missing package might be causing this issue.  I
> found someone has been able to build oprofile on ubuntu 12.04, but it isn't
> clear which version he was building:
>
>
> https://geekwentfreak-raviteja.rhcloud.com/blog/2012/10/08/installing-and-using-oprofiler-in-ubuntu-12-04/
>
> It looks like oprofile-0.9.9 and oprofile-1.0.0 has been successfully
> build on newer versions of ubuntu:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oprofile/1.0.0-0ubuntu3/+build/6459971
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/oprofile
>
>
> It looks like binutils removed the PARAMS for binutils-2.25:
>
>
> http://fossies.org/diffs/binutils/2.24_vs_2.25/include/libiberty.h-diff.html
>
> Is it possible to get a newer version of binutils on the machine or edit
> libiberty.h remove the PARAMS fro the declartions of expandargv and
> writeargv?
>
> -Will
>
> >
> > 2016-02-16 16:02 GMT-07:00 William Cohen <[email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]>>:
> >
> >     On 02/16/2016 03:09 PM, Wei-Fan Chiang wrote:
> >     > Hello sir,
> >     >
> >     > My name is Wei-Fan Chiang, and I am currently a graduate student
> of University of Utah.
> >     >
> >     > I tried to compile oprofile (the version on github, v1.1, and
> v1.0) but encountered the following error message:
> >     >
> >     > ========
> >     > g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I ../libutil -I ../libop -I
> ../libpp   -W -Wall -fno-common -ftemplate-depth-50 -g -O2 -MT
> bfd_support.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/bfd_support.Tpo -c -o bfd_support.o
> bfd_support.cpp
> >     > In file included from ../libutil/op_libiberty.h:27:0,
> >     >                  from bfd_support.cpp:20:
> >     > /usr/include/libiberty.h:88:24: error: expected initializer before
> ‘PARAMS’
> >     >  extern void expandargv PARAMS ((int *, char ***));
> >     >                         ^
> >     > /usr/include/libiberty.h:92:22: error: expected initializer before
> ‘PARAMS’
> >     >  extern int writeargv PARAMS ((char **, FILE *));
> >     >                       ^
> >     > ========
> >     >
> >     > Could you please help me resolve this problem?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks.
> >     >
> >     > - Wei-Fan
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     It would be useful to know what architecture and linux distribution
> you are attempting to build oprofile on.The version of
> /usr/include/libiberty.h on RHEL 7 and Fedora 23 do not have PARAMS in the
> declaration of expandargv or writeargv.
> >
> >     Looking around for libiberty.h and PARAMS turned up where the PARAMS
> needed to be defined.
> >
> >     https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-03/msg00125.html
> >
> >     Also what compiler is being used to build oprofile? I could imagine
> a case where PARAMS isn't getting set due the compiler being used.
> >
> >     -Will
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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