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

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

Em Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 05:32:31PM -0500, Mark Davis escreveu:
> Ah, my mistake. I was looking for that target from the tools/perf dir,
> not the top-level dir. It works as I expected.

No problem whatsoever, I think we should have some redirector to the top
level target, or at least a warning :-)

- Arnaldo
 
> Thank you!
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Em Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 05:04:19PM -0500, Mark Davis escreveu:
> >> Arnaldo, thanks for pushing that. I will try this with clang 4.0. Just
> >> so I'm clear, I'm assuming your fix does not address my other issue of
> >> "make perf-targz-src-pkg" no longer existing in this version of
> >> tools/perf, right? If that's true, any suggestions on how I get the
> >> dependencies for my system, other than via manual installation?
> >
> > uh?
> >
> > [acme@jouet linux]$ make help | grep perf
> >   perf-tar-src-pkg    - Build perf-4.10.0.tar source tarball
> >   perf-targz-src-pkg  - Build perf-4.10.0.tar.gz source tarball
> >   perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-4.10.0.tar.bz2 source tarball
> >   perf-tarxz-src-pkg  - Build perf-4.10.0.tar.xz source tarball
> > [acme@jouet linux]$
> > [acme@jouet linux]$ ls -la *.tar.*
> > ls: cannot access '*.tar.*': No such file or directory
> > [acme@jouet linux]$
> > [acme@jouet linux]$ make perf-targz-src-pkg
> >   TAR
> >   PERF_VERSION = 4.10.g4c7c9c
> > [acme@jouet linux]$ ls -la *.tar.*
> > -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 1620468 Feb 22 19:08 perf-4.10.0.tar.gz
> > [acme@jouet linux]$
> >
> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> >> <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > 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