Re: [Perfapi-devel] Building papi with an external libpfm4?

On 03/19/2012 09:32 AM, William Cohen wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 12:04 AM, Philip Mucci wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Being able to do this has been key for a lot of vendor deployments. So will if you do run into any problems,
let us know.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My initial attempt seemed to be successful for this, but I will need to do a bit more poking around on this to
verify.  The reason I was looking on doing this is to better follow the Fedora packaging guidelines that
prefer things to be unbundled.
> 
> -Will

Hi All,

I have worked on this a bit more today.  Did some additional clean up of the spec files. The test results look
pretty similar for the version of papi bundled with libpfm and version of papi with a separate libpfm rpm.  I
have put SRPM for both libpfm and papi in:

http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/papi_unbundled/

One needs to build the libpfm first and install the libpfm-devel before building the papi package.

My plan is to split out the libpfm into a separate package for fedora. There is a package review request for
libpfm to get it into fedora:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804666