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[v2,2/2] meson: Disable libdw for static builds by default

Message ID 20230210005208.438142-2-iii@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v2,1/2] meson: Add missing libdw knobs | expand

Commit Message

Ilya Leoshkevich Feb. 10, 2023, 12:52 a.m. UTC 
Static QEMU build fails on Debian Bullseye:

    /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdw.a(debuginfod-client.o): in function `__libdwfl_debuginfod_init':
    (.text.startup+0x17): undefined reference to `dlopen'

The reason is that pkg-config does not suggest -ldl for libdw, and
adding --extra-ldflags="-ldl" resolves the issue. However, static
linking with libdw is an unclear topic:

* Linux perf does it.
* Debian's libdw-dev description says:

      Only link to the static version for special cases and when you
      don't need anything from the ebl backends.

* As the error message above indicates, -ldl is also needed for
  debuginfod support.

The functionality provided by libdw is needed for analyzing performance
of JITed code, which is mostly useful to developers and researchers.
Therefore, in order to avoid unpleasant surprises for people who don't
need this, simply disable libdw for static builds by default. It can
still be enabled explicitly if needed.

Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
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 meson.build | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 87bc720f912..9bd6278f268 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1650,7 +1650,8 @@  endif
 
 # libdw
 libdw = not_found
-if not get_option('libdw').auto() or have_system or have_user
+if not get_option('libdw').auto() or \
+        (not enable_static and (have_system or have_user))
     libdw = dependency('libdw',
                        method: 'pkg-config',
                        kwargs: static_kwargs,