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Jiri Olsa
58cabf6ab1 perf tools: Move gtk2 check config into config/Makefile
Moving gtk2 check config into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-29 14:42:26 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
4a8f888a63 perf tools: Move slang check config into config/Makefile
Moving slang check config into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-10-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-29 14:40:18 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
a8279525f4 perf tools: Move libaudit check config into config/Makefile
Moving libaudit check config into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-9-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-29 14:38:45 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
0e433feb10 perf tools: Move libunwind check config into config/Makefile
Moving libunwind check config into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-8-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-29 14:37:17 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
779724fd07 perf tools: Move libdw check config into config/Makefile
Moving libdw check config into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28 16:24:07 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
cf4cca10f6 perf tools: Move libelf check config into config/Makefile
Moving libelf check config into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28 16:24:07 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
362493f0d6 perf tools: Move compiler and linker flags check into config/Makefile
Moving compiler and linker flags check into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28 16:24:06 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
a32f4936bc perf tools: Move programs check into config/Makefile
Moving programs check into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28 16:24:06 +03:00
Jiri Olsa
8bd407b962 perf tools: Move arch check into config/Makefile
Moving arch check into config/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369398928-9809-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-05-28 16:24:05 +03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6692c262df perf tools: Remove dependency on libnewt
Now that the map browser shares the input routine with the hists
browser, there is no need for using any libnewt routine, so remove all
traces except for honouring NO_NEWT=1 on the makefile command line as an
indication that TUI support is not needed, in fact it just sets
NO_SLANG=1.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wae5o7xca9m52bj1re28jc5j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-04-01 12:23:21 -03:00
Peter Hurley
79d824e316 perf tools: Make numa benchmark optional
Commit "perf: Add 'perf bench numa mem'..." added a NUMA performance
benchmark to perf. Make this optional and test for required
dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359337882-21821-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-30 10:36:21 -03:00
Al Cooper
31160d7fea perf tools: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility issue
According to Documentation/Changes, the kernel should be buildable with
GNU make 3.80+. tools/perf/config/utilities.mak contains the "$(or"
construct, which requires make 3.81.  This causes "make" to fail on
systems with GNU make 3.80.

Replace "$(or" with an equivalent "$(if" expression, to restore backward
compatibility. Also fix an issue where _get_attempt was called with only
one argument. This prevented the error message from printing the name of
the variable that can be used to fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1357680156-15520-1-git-send-email-alcooperx@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2013-01-24 16:40:17 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
cf3aa10355 perf tools: Always show CHK message when doing try-cc
It might be useful to see what's happening behind us rather than just
waiting few seconds during the config checking.

Also align the CHK message with other ones.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351241752-2919-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-26 11:22:24 -02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
feb8ada4ea perf tools: Remove noise in python version feature test
Now that the feature tests honours the V=1 make verbosity switch, add a
return to the main() routine in the python version test, to avoid this
distraction:

CHK python version
<stdin>: In function 'main':
<stdin>:5: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-999no5yxlc2oqo9xjeez5zmv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-24 14:20:10 -02:00
Jiri Olsa
28d213bac4 perf tools: Diplays more output on features check for make V=1
Adding more verbose output for compile time features checking, to ease
up debuging of feature detection failures.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fbjha6xs5soyaiek8j4142xg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-24 14:20:10 -02:00
Irina Tirdea
d816ec2d1b perf tools: Update Makefile for Android
For cross-compiling on Android, some specific changes are needed in
the Makefile.

Update the Makefile to support cross-compiling for Android.
The original ideea for this was send by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/23/316, but this is a rewrite.

Changes:
() support bionic in addition to glibc
() remove rt and pthread libraries that do not exist in Android
() use $(CFLAGS) when detecting initial compiler flags. This is needed
when setting CFLAGS as an argument of make (e.g. for setting --sysroot).
() include perf's local directory when building for Android to be able to find
relative paths if using --sysroot (e.g.: ../../include/linux/perf_event.h)

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <Bernhard.Rosenkranzer@linaro.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349678613-7045-3-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-08 17:42:16 -03:00
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
78da39faf7 perf tools: Add on_exit implementation
on_exit() is only available in new versions of glibc.
It is not implemented in Bionic and will lead to linking errors when
compiling for Android.

Implement a wrapper for on_exit using atexit.

The implementation for on_exit is the one sent by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/23/316. The configuration part from the Makefile
is different than the one from the original patch.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <Bernhard.Rosenkranzer@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349678613-7045-2-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-08 17:38:25 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
4d29089c2b perf tools: Check libaudit availability for perf-trace builtin
The newly added trace command requires an external audit library.

However it can cause a build error because it's not checked whether the
libaudit is installed on system:

    CC builtin-trace.o
  builtin-trace.c:7:22: fatal error: libaudit.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  make: *** [builtin-trace.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348745018-21744-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
[ committer note: Added ", disables 'trace tool' to the feature warning msg ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-27 10:56:40 -03:00
Irina Tirdea
c9f08bee50 perf tools: add NO_BACKTRACE for application self-debugging
perf has support for self-debugging by defining dump_stack function.
This function uses backtrace and backtrace_symbols functions defined as
GNU extensions.

In Android, bionic does not offer support for these functions and
compilation will fail with the following error:

target  C: libperf <= tools/perf/util/util.c
tools/perf/util/util.c:4:22: fatal error: execinfo.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Add a compile-time option (NO_BACKTRACE) to enable or disable
self-debugging functionality in perf. This can also help in debugging
since it offers the possibility to turn on/off printing the backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347065004-15306-12-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-09-07 22:12:30 -03:00
Jiri Olsa
6a40cd90f5 perf tools: Add libunwind dependency for DWARF CFI unwinding
Adding libunwind to be linked with perf if available. It's required
for the to get dwarf cfi unwinding support.

Also building perf with the dwarf call frame informations by default,
so that we can unwind callchains in perf itself.

Adding LIBUNWIND_DIR Makefile variable allowing user to specify
the directory with libunwind to be linked. This is used for
debug purposes.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-10-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-10 16:46:07 -03:00
Namhyung Kim
a6b702c117 perf ui/gtk: Add GTK info_bar widget to browser window
The GtkInfoBar is a modern UI component to display messages without
bothering the main window. It'll be used for showing a warning message.

As the GtkInfoBar requires 2.18 (or newer) version of GTK+ library, add
availability check to Makefile too.

Suggested-by: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338265382-6872-7-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-06-19 13:06:19 -03:00
Pekka Enberg
c31a945705 perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser
This patch adds a simple GTK2-based browser to 'perf report' that's
based on the TTY-based browser in builtin-report.c.

To launch "perf report" using the new GTK interface just type:

  $ perf report --gtk

The interface is somewhat limited in features at the moment:

  - No callgraph support

  - No KVM guest profiling support

  - No color coding for percentages

  - No sorting from the UI

  - ..and many, many more!

That said, I think this patch a reasonable start to build future features on.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202231952410.6689@tux.localdomain
[ committer note: Added #pragma to make gtk no strict prototype problem go
  away as suggested by Colin Walters modulo avoiding push/pop ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-03-19 15:13:29 -03:00
Michael Witten
f18568aae5 perf tools: git mv tools/perf/{features-tests.mak,config/}
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a6zhefjayuounko1tk5sjji2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
Michael Witten
7fbd065f5a perf tools: Move `try-cc'
The `try-cc' user-defined function was in tools/perf/feature-tests.mak;
this commit moves it to tools/perf/config/utilities.mak.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bqhwcuxsrve0iodn6q4ejaoi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
Michael Witten
ced465c400 perf tools: Makefile: PYTHON{,_CONFIG} to bandage Python 3 incompatibility
Currently, Python 3 is not supported by perf's code; this
can cause the build to fail for systems that have Python 3
installed as the default python:

  python{,-config}

The Correct Solution is to write compatibility code so that
Python 3 works out-of-the-box.

However, users often have an ancillary Python 2 installed:

  python2{,-config}

Therefore, a quick fix is to allow the user to specify those
ancillary paths as the python binaries that Makefile should
use, thereby avoiding Python 3 altogether; as an added benefit,
the Python binaries may be installed in non-standard locations
without the need for updating any PATH variable.

This commit adds the ability to set PYTHON and/or PYTHON_CONFIG
either as environment variables or as make variables on the
command line; the paths may be relative, and usually only PYTHON
is necessary in order for PYTHON_CONFIG to be defined implicitly.
Some rudimentary error checking is performed when the user
explicitly specifies a value for any of these variables.

In addition, this commit introduces significantly robust makefile
infrastructure for working with paths and communicating with the
shell; it's currently only used for handling Python, but I hope
it will prove useful in refactoring the makefiles.

Thanks to:

  Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>

for motivating this patch.

Acked-by: Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e987828e-87ec-4973-95e7-47f10f5d9bab-mfwitten@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00