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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] perf: Make location of kernel source configurable
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 02:33:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091207013339.GC4966@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091206307.542816612@firstfloor.org>

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 worry about that too.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-06 14:07 [PATCH] [1/2] perf: Make location of kernel source configurable Andi Kleen
2009-12-06 14:07 ` [PATCH] [2/2] perf: allow installing as perf-versionnumber Andi Kleen
2009-12-07  1:33 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-12-07  5:25   ` [PATCH] [1/2] perf: Make location of kernel source configurable Ingo Molnar
2009-12-07  5:31     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-07  6:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-07  7:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-07 10:32     ` Andi Kleen

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