Hi Pekka, On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:58:50 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hello, > > I'm seeing this when I try to build perf in v3.9-rc7: > > [penberg@golgotha perf]$ make > CHK -fstack-protector-all > CHK -Wstack-protector > CHK -Wvolatile-register-var > CHK -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 > CHK bionic > CHK libelf > CHK libdw > Makefile:584: No libdw.h found or old libdw.h found or elfutils is > older than 0.138, disables dwarf support. Please install new > elfutils-devel/libdw-dev > CHK libunwind > CHK -DLIBELF_MMAP > CHK libaudit > CHK libnewt > Makefile:673: newt not found, disables TUI support. Please install > newt-devel or libnewt-dev > CHK gtk2 > CHK -DHAVE_GTK_INFO_BAR > CHK perl > Makefile:755: The path '/usr/bin/python-config' is not executable. > Makefile:755: *** Please set 'PYTHON_CONFIG' appropriately. Stop. > > The problem is that I didn't have python-devel package installed and > get-executable-or-default decides to error out instead of letting the > Makefile disable Python support.
Right. I think the get-executable-or-default should not error out in this case but just emit a warning and keep building. Does following patch fix your problem? -----------8<-------------8<------------- diff --git a/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak b/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak index 8ef3bd30a549..3b8036f8aca4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak +++ b/tools/perf/config/utilities.mak @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ $(if $($(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$($(1)),$(1)),$(call _ge_attempt,$(2),$(1))) endef _ge_attempt = $(if $(get-executable),$(get-executable),$(_gea_warn)$(call _gea_err,$(2))) _gea_warn = $(warning The path '$(1)' is not executable.) -_gea_err = $(if $(1),$(error Please set '$(1)' appropriately)) +_gea_err = $(if $(1),$(warning Please set '$(1)' appropriately)) # try-cc # Usage: option = $(call try-cc, source-to-build, cc-options, msg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/