looks like this issue is rather tricky. adding libunwind to build dependecies actually gives nothing, there is still no dwarf support. Digging deeper I found that following test, which detects libunwind support for perf is not passed:
"gcc -o test-libunwind test-libunwind.c -lunwind -lunwind-x86 -lelf" fails with /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libunwind-x86.so: undefined reference to `lzma_stream_buffer_decode' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libunwind-x86.so: undefined reference to `lzma_index_uncompressed_size' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libunwind-x86.so: undefined reference to `lzma_index_end' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libunwind-x86.so: undefined reference to `lzma_index_buffer_decode' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libunwind-x86.so: undefined reference to `lzma_stream_footer_decode' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libunwind-x86.so: undefined reference to `lzma_index_size' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status adding -llzma to the test above doesn't solve the problem. During further investigation I found that there are problem with libunwind8-dev - its libraries lacks dependant libs. I filed bug on libunwind and proposed solution for x86 platform. Link to the bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunwind/+bug/1336912 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1248289 Title: Missing libunwind support in perf Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Hi, I'm trying to use perf's libunwind support in 13.04 with kernel 3.11.0-12-generic on amd64. Typically you can do this by using the "-g dwarf" flag, but it appears the perf command included in linux- tools-3.11.0-12-generic was not compiled with libunwind. This may be as simple as the build machine didn't have libunwind installed. Having dwarf support in perf with default Ubuntu kernels would be very useful as it provides a way to get profiling information when -fomitframepointer is used. Relevant upstream code: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v3.11/tools/perf/Makefile#L459 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v3.11/tools/perf/builtin-record.c#L758 Let me know if I can provide any other information. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1248289/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
