On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 20:19 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 16:03:14 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 16:00 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 20:23 +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > Could we have the perf tools built on Alpha please. For some reason > > > > they are not in the linux-tools package, whereas they are for other > > > > arches. > > > > > > Not all architectures have kernel support for perf, and apparently we > > > missed alpha getting it. > > > > > > > Performance hardware event support for EV67/68 CPUs is in the > > > > kernel and it would be nice to be able to use the perf tools on those > > > > CPUs. FWIW, I did do a "make" within the tools/perf directory of the > > > > source package and the tools built successfully. > > > > > > OK, will add it. > > > > It's already listed in the control file, so I'm confused as to what you > > want changed. > > > According to > http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux-tools&arch=alpha&ver=3.2.7-2&stamp=1332238234 > the linux-tools-3.2 package that gets built is empty (except for > copyright and changelog). Right, I see the problem and it should be fixed in 3.3-1~experimental.1. However the alpha porterbox was missing pieces so I couldn't actually rebuild the package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
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