Re: [PATCH v2 -tip] perf tools: fix building error for arm64.

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:33:10AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> Commit b11db6581beaccef8ae9a388ae96074aa5cc144f ("perf tools: Fix build
> error on ARCH=i386/x86_64/sparc64") uses sed on ARCH, which triggers a
> bug in sequence of sed expression, where 's/arm.*/arm/' will replace
> 'arm64' to 'arm', causes arm64 building failure.
> 
> This patch replaces 'arm64' to 'aarch64' before 's/arm.*/arm/' to
> protect arm64 and replaces 'aarch64' back to 'arm64' after fixing
> 'arm.*'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> ---
> v1 -> v2: Replace tabs with spaces to make new line similay to other lines.
> ---
>  tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch b/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch
> index e972057..a5b6020 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch
> +++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile.arch
> @@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ ifndef ARCH
>  ARCH := $(shell uname -m 2>/dev/null || echo not)
>  endif
>  
> +# Set arm64 to aarch64 before replacing arm.* to arm to protect ARCH = arm64.
> +# aarch64 will be replaced by arm64 again.
>  ARCH := $(shell echo $(ARCH) | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
>                                    -e s/sun4u/sparc/ -e s/sparc64/sparc/ \
> +                                  -e s/arm64/aarch64/ \
>                                    -e s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/ \
>                                    -e s/s390x/s390/ -e s/parisc64/parisc/ \
>                                    -e s/ppc.*/powerpc/ -e s/mips.*/mips/ \

hum, could we rather make the 'arm.*' expression complete?
like this one seems to work:

[jolsa@krava perf]$ echo armkrava | sed -e '/arm64/!s/arm.*/arm/'
arm
[jolsa@krava perf]$ echo arm64 | sed -e '/arm64/!s/arm.*/arm/'
arm64


jirka