Re: [PATCH] perf/jvmti: add check for java alternatives cmd in Makefile

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>]

Em Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:36:48PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo and Stephane,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:31:26PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 07:37:41AM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> > > This patch modifies the jvmti makefile to check
> > > if /usr/sbin/java-update-alternatives is present.
> > > If so, then use it, if not then use the altenatives
> > > command. This helps handle the difference between
> > > Ubuntu and Fedora Linux distributions.
> > 
> > Thanks, tested and applied.
> > 
> > We need tho to better integrate it with the 'make install' target, so
> > that it gets built and installed, this way it will end up packaged by
> > distros.
> > 
> > That, together with documentation should be enough as a first step to
> > ease usage in a more widespread way.
> 
> It'd be better providing a reasonable default (if possible) or guide
> to how to setup the JDIR for other distro as well.

Right, that would be even better. I.e. if it fails finding both, exit
with an error, stating that the user needs to figure out where is the
JDK files.

- Arnaldo