linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf trace: get rid of the hard-coded paths in the report scripts

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimNZa-HR7bquzNRc9igLajJjTmveJ+XReCgbKJZ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:29:09 +0200
From:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Cc:	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, fweisbec@...il.com, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf trace: get rid of the hard-coded paths in the report scripts

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@...radead.org> wrote:
> Em Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:59:18PM -0500, Tom Zanussi escreveu:
>> The perf trace report shell scripts hard-code the exec path of the
>> scripts into their command-lines, which doesn't work if perf has been
>> installed somewhere else.
>>
>> Instead, perf trace should create the paths at run-time.  This patch
>> does that and removes the hard-coded paths from all the report scripts.
>>
>> v2 changes: The first version inadvertantly caused scripts run from
>> outside the perf exec path to fail e.g. 'perf trace -s test.py'.  The
>> fix is to try the script name without the exec path first, then the
>> version using the exec path, which restores the expected behavior.
>>
>> Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
>
> Stephane,
>
>        Lemme know when you tried this patch so that I can merge it with
> a Tested-by: you tag, ok?
>
Will get back to you tomorrow morning (your time).
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