Re: [PATCH 37/50] tools/perf/build: Improve printout-of auto-detected features

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:46:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

SNIP

> So, this is a bit of a GNU Make mystery to me. If I have a failure for at 
> least one of the features, and if I leave out that DUMMY then I get this 
> printout:
> 
> ...                       libperl: [ OFF ]
> ...                     libpython: [ on  ]
> ...             libpython-version: [ on  ]
> ...                      libslang: [ on  ]
> ...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
> ...                       on-exit: [ on  ]
> ...                stackprotector: [ on  ]
> ...            stackprotector-all: [ on  ]
> 
>     GEN python/perf.so
> 
> Note how the last entry is missing: volatile-register-var.
> 
> If I add the DUMMY I get the full printout:
> 
> ...                       libperl: [ OFF ]
> ...                     libpython: [ on  ]
> ...             libpython-version: [ on  ]
> ...                      libslang: [ on  ]
> ...                     libunwind: [ on  ]
> ...                       on-exit: [ on  ]
> ...                stackprotector: [ on  ]
> ...            stackprotector-all: [ on  ]
> ...         volatile-register-var: [ on  ]
> 
>     GEN python/perf.so
> 
> Somehow GNU Make appears to be eating terminal ouput - or I might have 
> misunderstood something.
> 
> I hope it's the latter - but if it's the former then the DUMMY entry is 
> needed :-/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

I think the issue might be in the eval handling the $(info $(MSG)).
With following change on top of your v2 patchset it works for me.

jirka
---
 tools/perf/config/Makefile | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index c98ca34..43905fe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -180,21 +180,21 @@ endif
 #
 # Print the result of the feature test:
 #
-feature_print = $(eval $(feature_print_code))
+feature_print = $(eval $(feature_print_code)) $(info $(MSG))
+
 define feature_print_code
   ifeq ($(feature-$(1)), 1)
     MSG = $(shell printf '...%30s: [ \033[32mon\033[m  ]' $(1))
   else
     MSG = $(shell printf '...%30s: [ \033[31mOFF\033[m ]' $(1))
   endif
-  $(info $(MSG))
 endef
 
 #
 # Only print out our features if we rebuilt the testcases or if a test failed:
 #
 ifeq ($(test-all-failed), 1)
-  $(foreach feat,$(CORE_FEATURE_TESTS) DUMMY,$(call feature_print,$(feat)))
+  $(foreach feat,$(CORE_FEATURE_TESTS),$(call feature_print,$(feat)))
   $(info )
 endif
 
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