Re: Build failure when python-devel not installed

[David Ahern]

On 7/9/13 7:19 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	While trying to build perf on a freshly installed Fedora 18
> machine I couldn't do it if python-devel isn't installed.
>
> 	The expected behaviour is for a warning to be emitted and the
> build to continue.
>
> 	I bisected it down to:
>
> commit 31160d7feab786c991780d7f0ce2755a469e0e5e
> "perf tools: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility issue"
>
> 	If I revert this changeset, everything works as expected, I get:
>
> config/Makefile:319: The path '/usr/bin/python-config' is not executable.
> config/Makefile:323: No python-config tool was found
> config/Makefile:323: Python support will not be built

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/15/148

Suggested patch at the bottom of https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/16/577

David
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