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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Makefile.config11
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Makefile.perf2
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
index e4988f49ea79..9a06787fedc6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
@@ -824,6 +824,17 @@ ifndef NO_LIBZSTD
endif
endif
+ifndef NO_LIBCAP
+ ifeq ($(feature-libcap), 1)
+ CFLAGS += -DHAVE_LIBCAP_SUPPORT
+ EXTLIBS += -lcap
+ $(call detected,CONFIG_LIBCAP)
+ else
+ msg := $(warning No libcap found, disables capability support, please install libcap-devel/libcap-dev);
+ NO_LIBCAP := 1
+ endif
+endif
+
ifndef NO_BACKTRACE
ifeq ($(feature-backtrace), 1)
CFLAGS += -DHAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index 67512a12276b..f9807d8c005b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ include ../scripts/utilities.mak
#
# Define NO_LIBBPF if you do not want BPF support
#
+# Define NO_LIBCAP if you do not want process capabilities considered by perf
+#
# Define NO_SDT if you do not want to define SDT event in perf tools,
# note that it doesn't disable SDT scanning support.
#