From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
"Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>,
Yuzhuo Jing <yuzhuo@google.com>, Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>,
Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>, Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] tools build: Make libperl opt-in rather than opt-out, deprecate
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:07:06 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aM2p2up90BM0zwEz@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250908181918.3533480-1-irogers@google.com>
On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 11:19:18AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> If libperl is installed then the perf tool build will build against
> it. There appears to be limited interest in the scripting support for
> perl so let's make it opt-in and deprecate it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Applied, after the slight change below, to keep the tip for fedora/rhel
systems.
Thanks,
- Arnaldo
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-check.c b/tools/perf/builtin-check.c
index 5457762f7dd59425..7fd054760e47847b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-check.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-check.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct feature_status supported_features[] = {
FEATURE_STATUS("libelf", HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT),
FEATURE_STATUS("libnuma", HAVE_LIBNUMA_SUPPORT),
FEATURE_STATUS("libopencsd", HAVE_CSTRACE_SUPPORT),
- FEATURE_STATUS_TIP("libperl", HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT, "Deprecated, use LIBPERL=1 and install libperl-dev to build with it"),
+ FEATURE_STATUS_TIP("libperl", HAVE_LIBPERL_SUPPORT, "Deprecated, use LIBPERL=1 and install perl-ExtUtils-Embed/libperl-dev to build with it"),
FEATURE_STATUS("libpfm4", HAVE_LIBPFM),
FEATURE_STATUS("libpython", HAVE_LIBPYTHON_SUPPORT),
FEATURE_STATUS("libslang", HAVE_SLANG_SUPPORT),
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-19 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-08 18:19 [PATCH v1] tools build: Make libperl opt-in rather than opt-out, deprecate Ian Rogers
2025-09-17 18:01 ` Ian Rogers
2025-09-19 19:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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