Jolsa howto install sources

Sources

Clone any kernel source git tree:

# linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
# tip   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
# acme  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux
# jolsa git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Dependencies

Packages you need to compile perf with all features (Fedora based):

• gcc
• glibc-devel
• glibc-headers
• binutils-devel
• elfutils-libelf-devel
• elfutils-devel
• libunwind-devel
• audit-libs-devel
• slang-devel
• gtk2-devel
• numa-libs-devel
• python-devel
• perl-devel
• perl-ExtUtils-Embed
• numactl-devel
• asciidoc
• xmlto
• flex
• bison

$ sudo yum install gcc binutils-devel elfutils-libelf-devel \
  elfutils-devel libunwind-devel audit-libs-devel slang-devel \
  gtk2-devel python-devel perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed numactl-devel \
  asciidoc xmlto flex bison glibc-devel

...

Build & Install

$ cd linux-2.6.git/tools/perf
$ make && make install

Binaries

The perf is by default installed under user's $(HOME)

[jolsa@krava perf]$ ls -l ~/bin/perf 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jolsa jolsa 8383047 Jun 20 15:43 /home/jolsa/bin/perf
[jolsa@krava perf]$ ls -l ~/libexec/perf-core/ ~/share/man/man1/

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