perf cross compilation on yocto-linux for ARM fails

[Altera_Forum]

Hi all, 

 Did anybody get perf tool to build? it fails to find libelf.h.. What am I doing wrong?   Thanks for your quick response<85> Below the steps I have been using. Look forward to your help on this issue..  Thanks Suresh   $ cd ~ $ git clone http://git.rocketboards.org/poky-socfpga.git $ cd poky-socfpga/ $ git checkout -b <test_branch> ACDS14.0_REL_GSRD_PR $ source ./altera-init build $ bitbake perf  Note: replace <test_branch> with the name of the branch you want to use locally.   This fails with  ================================================== ==  [snagarajan@moltar-76 perf]$ alias armmake='make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- ARCH=arm' [snagarajan@moltar-76 perf]$ PATH=~/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.07_linux/bin:$PATH [snagarajan@moltar-76 perf]$ armmake install BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build  Auto-detecting system features: ... backtrace: [ on ] ... dwarf: [ on ] ... fortify-source: [ on ] ... glibc: [ on ] ... gtk2: [ OFF ] ... gtk2-infobar: [ OFF ] ... libaudit: [ on ] ... libbfd: [ on ] ... libelf: [ on ] ... libelf-getphdrnum: [ on ] ... libelf-mmap: [ on ] ... libnuma: [ OFF ] ... libperl: [ on ] ... libpython: [ on ] ... libpython-version: [ on ] ... libslang: [ OFF ] ... libunwind: [ OFF ] ... on-exit: [ on ] ... stackprotector: [ on ] ... stackprotector-all: [ on ] ... timerfd: [ on ]  config/Makefile:329: No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1 config/Makefile:368: slang not found, disables TUI support. Please install slang-devel or libslang-dev config/Makefile:381: GTK2 not found, disables GTK2 support. Please install gtk2-devel or libgtk2.0-dev config/Makefile:536: No numa.h found, disables 'perf bench numa mem' benchmark, please install numa-libs-devel or libnuma-dev FLEX util/pmu-flex.c CC util/environment.o CC util/event.o CC util/evlist.o In file included from util/callchain.h:8:0, from util/hist.h:6, from util/evsel.h:11, from util/evlist.h:8, from util/evlist.c:15: util/symbol.h:17:20: fatal error: libelf.h: No such file or directory #include <libelf.h> ^ compilation terminated. make[1]: *** [util/evlist.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....