Re: [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Fix libdw-dev package name in error message

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx · Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:48:20 -0400

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:59:19 -0000, tip-bot for Stefan Hajnoczi said:
> Commit-ID:  f93830fbb06b67848c762f2177c06cc3cbb97deb
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f93830fbb06b67848c762f2177c06cc3cbb97deb
> Author:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:39:54 -0300
> Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:39:54 -0300
> 
> perf tools: Fix libdw-dev package name in error message
> 
> The headers required for DWARF support are provided by the libdw-dev
> package in Debian-based distros.

Not all the world is Debian based.  As I mentioned before, the package needed
is elfutils-devel on Redhat/Fedora systesm.  For those boxes, you're changing a
'elfutil-dev' that the user can guess is supposed to be -devel, to a package
that doesn't exist on Redhat/Fedora.  And to compound it, if the user guesses
that you meant libdwarf-devel, that still fails, because that does *not*
provide the libdw.h header - that's still in elfutil-devel.