Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Speed up the perf build time by simplifyingthe perf --version string generation

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 05:43:36 EST



* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:46:00AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/PERF-VERSION-GEN
> > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ LF='
> > # First check if there is a .git to get the version from git describe
> > # otherwise try to get the version from the kernel makefile
> > if test -d ../../.git -o -f ../../.git &&
> > - VN=$(git describe --match 'v[0-9].[0-9]*' --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null) &&
> > + VN=$(echo $(git tag --list "v[0-9].[0-9]*" | tail -1)"-g"$(git log -1 --abbrev=4 --pretty=format:"%h" HEAD) 2>/dev/null) &&
>
> [acme@sandy linux]$ make -j8 -C tools/perf/ O=/home/acme/git/build/perf install
> make: Entering directory `/home/git/linux/tools/perf'
> error: unknown option `list'
> usage: git tag [-a|-s|-u <key-id>] [-f] [-m <msg>|-F <file>] <tagname>
> [<head>]
>
> <SNIP>
>
> [acme@sandy linux]$ git --version
> git version 1.7.1

Does -l work?

Alternatively, please replace:

git tag --list "v[0-9].[0-9]*" | tail -1

with:

git tag | tail -1 | grep -E "v[0-9].[0-9]*"

which is just as fast.

Thanks,

Ingo
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