On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Giovanni Azua <brave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Eranian,
>
> On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:52 PM, stephane eranian wrote:
>>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:14 PM, stephane eranian wrote:
>>>> MAC OS X is not supported at all.
>>>> The perfmon2 project has been abandoned since 2009.
>>>> [snip]
>>>
>> For the install to work, you need to be root.
>>
>> Also make sure you pull again from the GIT tree. I fixed a problem on MAC OS 
>> x
>> just today.
>>
>>> Architecture specific tests:
>>>         140 x86 events: 0 errors
>>> All tests passed
>
> Do you confirm that perfmon2 then works for Mac OS X? and that the tests 
> passing is not mere coincidence?
>
No it does not.
perfmon2 or perf_event do not work on Mac OS X.

The tests are just validating the event tables, they are not measuring anything.

> Yes I ran it as root of course, it wouldn't install otherwise.
>
> I will checkout and reinstall from your "trunk" then.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Best regards,
> Giovanni

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