Re: make perf-targz-src-pkg or better approach to install perf?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:42:39PM -0500, Mark Davis escreveu:
> Hi all. I used to use
> 
> make perf-targz-src-pkg
> 
> to install perf from the linux/tools/perf source. I'm now trying to
> upgrade my perf installation from source again and I'm not seeing this
> make target. I'm having a bit of trouble with dependencies. Here's
> what I get when I try to build. (Note: my source is from github
> (https://github.com/torvalds/linux) at 772c8f6 (from a couple hours

So, please pull again from that repo, I made changes to make tools/
build with clang 4.0, should be working and have the warnings addressed
below fixed.

> ago). Is there a new / recommended approach to installing perf that is
> similar to the above approach? I don't have root on this machine and
> need to install either from source or a relatively recent package that
> I can install to an arbitrary directory. I'm using clang 3.8.0 as my
> compiler (note: I can change this or upgrade this if necessary). In
> particular I'm trying to get BPF in perf-record, which seems to be
> disabled based on the warnings that print out.
> 
> I'm also getting this other compiler error:
> 
> warning: optimization level '-O6' is not supported; using '-O3' instead
> 
>   CC       pmu-events/pmu-events.o
> 
> error: unknown warning option '-Wstrict-aliasing=3'; did you mean
> '-Wstring-plus-int'?
> 
>       [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
> 
> 

- Arnaldo