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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:33:02 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf build: Require libtraceevent from the
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:02:38 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:

> yeah, this probably should work like with other libraries, don't stop
> the build, just don't build features that depend on libtraceevent,
> warning the user that features foo, bar and baz won't be available.
> 
> For people working with just hardware, software, cache events, no
> problem.

How are software events parsed?

-- Steve