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Message-ID: <f64f6cbf-73cf-e59a-5f6d-7303125bee66@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 11:08:37 +0100
From:   James Clark <james.clark@....com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: python: Fix build when PYTHON_CONFIG is user
 supplied



On 28/07/2022 20:26, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 09:37:32AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 2:40 AM James Clark <james.clark@....com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The previous change to Python autodetection had a small mistake where
>>> the auto value was used to determine the Python binary, rather than the
>>> user supplied value. The Python binary is only used for one part of the
>>> build process, rather than the final linking, so it was producing
>>> correct builds in most scenarios, especially when the auto detected
>>> value matched what the user wanted, or the system only had a valid set
>>> of Pythons.
>>>
>>> Change it so that the Python binary path is derived from either the
>>> PYTHON_CONFIG value or PYTHON value, depending on what is specified by
>>> the user. This was the original intention.
>>>
>>> This error was spotted in a build failure an odd cross compilation
>>> environment after commit 4c41cb46a732fe82 ("perf python: Prefer
>>> python3") was merged.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 630af16eee495f58 ("perf tools: Use Python devtools for version autodetection rather than runtime")
>>> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@....com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> 
> Thanks, applied.

Hi Arnaldo,

I couldn't find this change in any of your branches. Do you know if it
got dropped somehow or was there an issue with it?

Thanks
James

> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
>  
>> Thanks,
>> Ian
>>
>>> ---
>>>  tools/perf/Makefile.config | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.config b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
>>> index d3c254c0f5c6..a69da9f34486 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile.config
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.config
>>> @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ endif
>>>  # defined. get-executable-or-default fails with an error if the first argument is supplied but
>>>  # doesn't exist.
>>>  override PYTHON_CONFIG := $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON_CONFIG,$(PYTHON_AUTO))
>>> -override PYTHON := $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON,$(subst -config,,$(PYTHON_AUTO)))
>>> +override PYTHON := $(call get-executable-or-default,PYTHON,$(subst -config,,$(PYTHON_CONFIG)))
>>>
>>>  grep-libs  = $(filter -l%,$(1))
>>>  strip-libs  = $(filter-out -l%,$(1))
>>> --
>>> 2.28.0
>>>
> 

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