There are older libaudit versions that don't have an
audit_errno_to_name() method, resulting in a builtin-trace.c build
error:
builtin-trace.c: In function ‘trace__sys_exit’:
builtin-trace.c:794: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘audit_errno_to_name’
Expand the libaudit test to detect this.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130912132706.GD23826@gmail.com
[ Fix the test by escaping the double quotes ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Header files of libtraceevent or no longer local headers. Thus, use
default path notation for them. Also removing extra traceevent include
path and instead handle this similar to liblk.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370964558-8599-1-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since libelf sometimes uses libpthread, we have to list that after -lelf
when someone tries to build statically. Else things go boom:
Makefile:479: *** No libelf.h/libelf found, please install \
libelf-dev/elfutils-libelf-devel. Stop.
Similarly, the -ldw test fails as it often uses -lz:
Makefile:462: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is older \
than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new elfutils-devel/libdw-dev
And if we add debugging to try-cc, we see:
+ echo '#include <dwarf.h>
int main(void)
{
Dwarf *dbg = dwarf_begin(0, DWARF_C_READ);
return (long)dbg;
}'
+ i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -x c - -O2 -pipe -march=atom -mtune=atom -mfpmath=sse -g \
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE \
-ldw -lelf -static -lpthread -lrt -lelf -lm -o .24368
/usr/lib/libdw.a(dwarf_begin_elf.o):function check_section.isra.1: error: undefined reference to 'inflateInit_'
/usr/lib/libdw.a(dwarf_begin_elf.o):function check_section.isra.1: error: undefined reference to 'inflate'
/usr/lib/libdw.a(dwarf_begin_elf.o):function check_section.isra.1: error: undefined reference to 'inflateReset'
/usr/lib/libdw.a(dwarf_begin_elf.o):function check_section.isra.1: error: undefined reference to 'inflateEnd'
+ echo '#include <libelf.h>
int main(void)
{
Elf *elf = elf_begin(0, ELF_C_READ, 0);
return (long)elf;
}'
+ i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -x c - -O2 -pipe -march=atom -mtune=atom -mfpmath=sse -g \
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE \
-static -lpthread -lrt -lelf -lm -o .19216
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function file_read_elf: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_init'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function __libelf_read_mmaped_file: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_init'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function __libelf_read_mmaped_file: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_init'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function read_file: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_init'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function lock_dup_elf.8072: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_unlock'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function lock_dup_elf.8072: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_wrlock'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function elf_begin: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_rdlock'
/usr/lib/libelf.a(elf_begin.o):function elf_begin: error: undefined reference to 'pthread_rwlock_unlock'
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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/1368073064-18276-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Among other things, the following:
commit 31160d7fea
Date: Tue Jan 8 16:22:36 2013 -0500
perf tools: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility issue
attempts to aid the user by tapping into an existing error message,
as described in the commit message:
... 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.
or more precisely:
-$(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2)))
+$(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2),$(1)))
However, The "missing" argument was in fact missing on purpose; it's
absence is a signal that the error message should be skipped, because
the failure would be due to the default value, not any user-supplied
value. This can be seen in how `_ge_attempt' uses `gea_err' (in the
config/utilities.mak file):
_ge_attempt = $(if $(get-executable),$(get-executable),$(_gea_warn)$(call _gea_err,$(2)))
_gea_warn = $(warning The path '$(1)' is not executable.)
_gea_err = $(if $(1),$(error Please set '$(1)' appropriately))
That is, because the argument is no longer missing, the value `$(1)'
(associated with `_gea_err') always evaluates to true, thus always
triggering the error condition that is meant to be reserved for
only the case when a user explicitly supplies an invalid value.
Concretely, the result is a regression in the Makefile's configuration
of python support; rather than gracefully disable support when the
relevant executables cannot be found according to default values, the
build process halts in error as though the user explicitly supplied
the values.
This new commit simply reverts the offending one-line change.
Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOJsxLHv17Ys3M7P5q25imkUxQW6LE_vABxh1N3Tt7Mv6Ho4iw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Fixing build errors with O and DESTDIR make vars set:
$ make prefix=/usr/local O=$builddir DESTDIR=$destdir -C tools/ perf
...
make[1]: Entering directory `.../.source/perf/tools/perf'
CC .../.build/perf/perf/util/parse-events.o
util/parse-events.c:14:32: fatal error: parse-events-bison.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [.../.build/perf/perf/util/parse-events.o] Error 1
...
and:
LINK /.../.build/perf/perf/perf
gcc: error: /.../.build/perf/perf//.../.source/perf/tools/lib/lk/liblk.a: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370964158-4135-1-git-send-email-rric@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fix having verbose build with V=0, e.g:
make V=0 -C tools/ perf
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@calxeda.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503134953.GU8356@rric.localhost
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Switching to full path C include directories, to make the includes
clear. Plus little include cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.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/1369398928-9809-21-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Merging all *LDFLAGS* make variable into LDFLAGS to eliminate all
special *LDFLAGS* variables and make the setup clear.
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/1369398928-9809-20-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Merging all *CFLAGS* make variable into CFLAGS to eliminate all special
*_CFLAGS_* variables and make the setup clear.
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/1369398928-9809-19-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Ingo Molnar