60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
> Michał Sidor suggests building against libbfd, something that the Debian maintainers don’t want to do."don't want to" isn't quite correct - they can't.Perf is licensed under the GPLv2, libbfd under the GPLv3. The licenses are incompatible, which makes the combination unredistributable - which is what Debian would be doing with it.Debian is legally not allowed to do this.