Re: arm/arm64 perf build issue with mainline

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 05:10:58PM +0100, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 08:16:15AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> > On 4/23/15 8:04 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > >+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
> > >@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ unexport MAKEFLAGS
> > >  # (To override it, run 'make JOBS=1' and similar.)
> > >  #
> > >  ifeq ($(JOBS),)
> > >-  JOBS := $(shell egrep -c '^processor|^CPU' /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null)
> > >+  JOBS := $(shell getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN 2>/dev/null)
> > >    ifeq ($(JOBS),0)
> > >      JOBS := 1
> > >    endif
>  
> > Certainly a more robust way of doing it but I am concerned this
> > might end up breaking others. For Fedora at least getconf is in the
> > glibc-common package and there are users that do not build with
> > glibc. It is not clear if the build system for those environments
> > will have getconf.
> 
> Hum, perhaps check if getconf is present, if not fallback to the egrep
> -c? I'll try.

I don't have a SPARC machine to hand, but we could check that the character
immediately following "CPU" is a number [0-9].

Will