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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:07:15 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] perf: Make location of kernel source configurable
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* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 03:07:30PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > tools/perf has no support for separate object directories
> > and lots of hard coded paths assuming that the kernel source
> > is always in ../..
> > 
> > As a first step of compiling it separately without messing
> > up clean source trees allow to configure the kernel source
> > location using a KERNELSRC variable 
> > 
> > This allows at least to copy the whole tools/perf
> > directory elsewhere and build it separately.
> > 
> > The default is still ../.., so for a standard build
> > nothing changes
> > 
> > This also removes a lot of ugly ../.. from the source.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> 
> It does not apply cleanly, it seems you are using 2.6.32 There have a 
> been a lot of updates in this merge window.
> 
> Could you please resend against latest linus tree?

Even better would be a patch against latest -tip:

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

which includes the latest perf event tree.

Thanks,

	Ingo