On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:07:28AM +0200, Tuomas Tynkkynen wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Please apply the following commit from 4.8 to 4.4.y. It fixes a perf > build failure on distros with modern Perl: Now queued up. But how are you getting past this error when building perf on Arch Linux: ~/linux/stable/linux-4.4.y/tools/perf $ make BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build config/Makefile:448: Missing perl devel files. Disabling perl scripting support, please install perl-ExtUtils-Embed/libperl-dev make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.1.1/include/stddef.h', needed by 'fixdep.o'. Stop. make[2]: *** [Makefile:36: fixdep-in.o] Error 2 make[1]: *** [/home/gregkh/linux/stable/linux-4.4.y/tools/build/Makefile.include:7: fixdep] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:69: all] Error 2 And yes, ExtUtils:Embed is installed :( thanks, greg k-h