Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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This is useful to see if, on x86, the legacy libaudit still works, as it is used in architectures that don't have the SYSCALL_TABLE logic and we want to have it tested in 'make -C tools/perf/ build-test'. E.g.: Without having audit-libs-devel installed: $ make NO_SYSCALL_TABLE=1 O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j12' parallel build <SNIP> Auto-detecting system features: <SNIP> ... libaudit: [ OFF ] ... libbfd: [ on ] ... libcap: [ on ] <SNIP> Makefile.config:664: No libaudit.h found, disables 'trace' tool, please install audit-libs-devel or libaudit-dev <SNIP> After installing it: $ rm -rf /tmp/build/perf ; mkdir -p /tmp/build/perf $ time make NO_SYSCALL_TABLE=1 O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin ; perf test python make: Entering dire...