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Message-Id: <1276834977.7762.4.camel@tropicana>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:22:57 -0500
From:	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
To:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	paulus@...ba.org, davem@...emloft.net, fweisbec@...il.com,
	acme@...radead.org, perfmon2-devel@...ts.sf.net, eranian@...il.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] perf: installed python -report scripts have bogus paths

Hi,

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:54 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking at the perf trace and python scripting support.
> But I quickly ran into an issue. I compiled with:
> $ make prefix=/usr
> $ make prefix=/usr install
> 
> All the scripts are installed in /usr/libexec/perf-core/scripts/.....
> 
> The problem is that all the -report scripts have the .py script
> paths hardcoded as ~/libexec/.....
> 
> Here is an example with syscall-counts-report
> perf trace $@ -s ~/libexec/perf-core/scripts/python/syscall-counts.py $comm
> 
> That should either be stripped to syscall-counts.py and perf trace adds the
> prefix or make install needs to patch the path in. Otherwise I don't see how
> this can work unless I am confused about the usage model.

You're right - it's not a great idea to be hard-coding the path in like
this.

I'll submit a patch shortly to have perf trace add the prefix.

Thanks,

Tom


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