Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Create libdir directory before installing libperf-jvmti.so

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Sun Jan 08 2017 - 09:25:07 EST


On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:18:08PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The install command for libperf-jvmti.so does not check if libdir exists
> before installing. This means that when the install command is run:
>
> install libperf-jvmti.so '/tmp/test_root/usr/lib64';
>
> libperf-jvmti.so will get installed to /usr/lib64 as a file and break further
> installation. Fix this by ensuring the directory gets created first.
>
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410296
>
> Fixes: d4dfdf00d43e ("perf jvmti: Plug compilation into perf build")
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> For full disclosure, Fedora is setting NO_JVMTI but this should still be fixed
> to allow it to be turned on in the future.

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

I have patches for fedora to install that, looks like you guys
are not planning to enable it, so I'll post it soon ;-)

thanks,
jirka