From 8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Zanussi Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:18:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] 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 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 --- tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README | 4 ++-- 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) -- 2.20.1