rootninja

I found the easiest way to get all the dependencies out of the way was to attempt to install Fedora’s oprofile, oprofile-devel, and oprofile-gui through YUM. But instead of installing them, just find out their dependencies and install those.

$ sudo yum install lcms libmng qt lcms -y

./configure –with-kernel-support

checking for kernel OProfile support... yes
checking whether malloc attribute is understood... no
checking whether __builtin_expect is understood... yes
checking for sched_setaffinity... yes
checking for perfmonctl... no
checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... yes
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
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

You’ll probably hit this wall because liberty or iberty or whatever this library is known as is not part of binutils. It’s in binutils-devel. So install that.

$ sudo yum install binutils-devel -y

You should be able to configure, make, make install now. Don’t forget to specify the other options you’ll want for a custom build.

  --with-binutils=dir		Path to binutils installation to use
  --with-binutils-libname       Lib dir name under binutils installation; [lib]]
  --with-gcc=dir		Path to GCC installation to use
  --with-kernel-support        Use 2.6 kernel (no kernel source tree required)
  --with-linux=dir             Path to Linux source tree
  --with-module-dir=dir        Path to module installation directory
  --with-java=java-home        Path to Java home directory
  --with-extra-includes=DIR    add extra include paths
  --with-extra-libs=DIR        add extra library paths
  --with-target=cell-be   Check BFD support for Cell Broadband Engine SPU profiling
  --with-x                use the X Window System
  --with-qt-dir           where the root of Qt is installed
  --with-qt-includes      where the Qt includes are.
  --with-qt-libraries     where the Qt library is installed.

./configure –with-linux=/lib/modules/2.6-custom

make; make install