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authorTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>2009-11-30 01:18:49 -0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-30 09:04:01 +0100
commit8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c (patch)
tree86262454f22f008acdb9e76fe1ab9176efaea9d9 /tools
parent61381de0504181368672a83d2e14c38dbaf3c136 (diff)
downloadlinux-8ea339adc0a48236008e59dd21564d71c37b331c.tar.bz2
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/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
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)