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| author |   Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> | 2009-11-30 01:18:49 -0600 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-11-30 09:04:01 +0100 |
| commit | 8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c (patch) | |
| tree | 86262454f22f008acdb9e76fe1ab9176efaea9d9 /tools | |
| parent | perf trace/scripting: Fix Perl common_* access functions (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c.tar.xz linux-dev-8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c.zip | |
perf trace/scripting: Add Fedora libperl install note to doc
Fedora needs perl-ExtUtils-Embed for Perl scripting, which also
brings along libperl-devel; note this info for the convenience
of Fedora users.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259565529-6407-5-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/trace-event-perl.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README index adb99aa3a7b8..9a9707630791 100644 --- a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README +++ b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ INSTALLATION Building perf with perf trace Perl scripting should install this module in the right place. -You should make sure libperl is installed first e.g. apt-get install -libperl-dev. +You should make sure libperl and ExtUtils/Embed.pm are installed first +e.g. apt-get install libperl-dev or yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed. DEPENDENCIES diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-perl.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-perl.c index 2e1cc3c11c70..51e833fd58c3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-perl.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-perl.c @@ -577,7 +577,9 @@ struct scripting_ops perl_scripting_ops = { void setup_perl_scripting(void) { fprintf(stderr, "Perl scripting not supported." - " Install libperl-dev[el] and rebuild perf to get it.\n"); + " Install libperl and rebuild perf to enable it. e.g. " + "apt-get install libperl-dev (ubuntu), yum install " + "perl-ExtUtils-Embed (Fedora), etc.\n"); } #else void setup_perl_scripting(void) |