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authorTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>2009-11-30 02:18:49 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-30 03:04:01 -0500
commit8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c (patch)
tree86262454f22f008acdb9e76fe1ab9176efaea9d9
parent61381de0504181368672a83d2e14c38dbaf3c136 (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/trace-event-perl.c4
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
36Building perf with perf trace Perl scripting should install this 36Building perf with perf trace Perl scripting should install this
37module in the right place. 37module in the right place.
38 38
39You should make sure libperl is installed first e.g. apt-get install 39You should make sure libperl and ExtUtils/Embed.pm are installed first
40libperl-dev. 40e.g. apt-get install libperl-dev or yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed.
41 41
42DEPENDENCIES 42DEPENDENCIES
43 43
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 = {
577void setup_perl_scripting(void) 577void setup_perl_scripting(void)
578{ 578{
579 fprintf(stderr, "Perl scripting not supported." 579 fprintf(stderr, "Perl scripting not supported."
580 " Install libperl-dev[el] and rebuild perf to get it.\n"); 580 " Install libperl and rebuild perf to enable it. e.g. "
581 "apt-get install libperl-dev (ubuntu), yum install "
582 "perl-ExtUtils-Embed (Fedora), etc.\n");
581} 583}
582#else 584#else
583void setup_perl_scripting(void) 585void setup_perl_scripting(void)