1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/setup.py b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
index d0f9f29cf181..73d510269784 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/setup.py
+++ b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ cflags += getenv('CFLAGS', '').split()
 
 build_lib = getenv('PYTHON_EXTBUILD_LIB')
 build_tmp = getenv('PYTHON_EXTBUILD_TMP')
+libtraceevent = getenv('LIBTRACEEVENT')
 
 ext_sources = [f.strip() for f in file('util/python-ext-sources')
                                 if len(f.strip()) > 0 and f[0] != '#']
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ perf = Extension('perf',
                   sources = ext_sources,
                   include_dirs = ['util/include'],
                   extra_compile_args = cflags,
+                  extra_objects = [libtraceevent],
                  )
 
 setup(name='perf',