From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tzanussi@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, fweisbec@gmail.com,
stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix libdw-dev package name in error message
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:57:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD75DDE.7040001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100427150016.GC8565@ghostprotocols.net>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:48:20AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu escreveu:
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:59:19 -0000, tip-bot for Stefan Hajnoczi said:
>>> Commit-ID: f93830fbb06b67848c762f2177c06cc3cbb97deb
>>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f93830fbb06b67848c762f2177c06cc3cbb97deb
>>> Author: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> AuthorDate: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:39:54 -0300
>>> Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
>>> CommitDate: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:39:54 -0300
>>>
>>> perf tools: Fix libdw-dev package name in error message
>>>
>>> The headers required for DWARF support are provided by the libdw-dev
>>> package in Debian-based distros.
>>
>> Not all the world is Debian based. As I mentioned before, the package needed
>> is elfutils-devel on Redhat/Fedora systesm. For those boxes, you're changing a
>> 'elfutil-dev' that the user can guess is supposed to be -devel, to a package
>> that doesn't exist on Redhat/Fedora. And to compound it, if the user guesses
>> that you meant libdwarf-devel, that still fails, because that does *not*
>> provide the libdw.h header - that's still in elfutil-devel.
>
> It works for Red Hat, the message is:
>
> msg := $(warning No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found, disables dwarf support. Please install elfutils-devel/libdw-dev);
Right, if someone knows some other package name on other distro,
please tell us.
Thank you,
--
Masami Hiramatsu
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-26 14:27 [PATCH] perf: Fix libdw-dev package name in error message Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-26 16:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-04-26 16:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-04-27 12:59 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-27 13:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-04-27 15:00 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-04-27 21:57 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
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