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>
next prev 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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