From 7a0447d61d2d754988add992be2b46d4587ae86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:08:18 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Warn the user about how to enable libunwind support When one has libunwind installed somewhere the perf tools build process doesn't expects it to be, this happens: [acme@ssdandy linux]$ make O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf/ install-bin make: Entering directory `/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build config/Makefile:312: No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1 Auto-detecting system features: ... libunwind: [ OFF ] Change the message so that it tells how to use a non-standard libunwind install directory: config/Makefile:312: No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1 and/or set LIBUNWIND_DIR [acme@ssdandy linux]$ make LIBUNWIND_DIR=/opt/libunwind-git/ O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf/ install-bin make: Entering directory `/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build Auto-detecting system features: ... libunwind: [ on ] Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-huoxnou7sw85lm58k3pi1xhw@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/config/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile index 97a64c4..9429805 100644 --- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile +++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ endif # NO_LIBELF ifndef NO_LIBUNWIND ifneq ($(feature-libunwind), 1) - msg := $(warning No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1); + msg := $(warning No libunwind found, disabling post unwind support. Please install libunwind-dev[el] >= 1.1 and/or set LIBUNWIND_DIR); NO_LIBUNWIND := 1 else ifeq ($(ARCH),arm) -- 2.7.4