Re: [PATCH] perf: install into /usr/local by default.

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* T??r??k Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> wrote:

> It was confusing to install into $(HOME)/bin, especially since there was
> no documentation mentioning where perf gets installed by default.
> So install to /usr/local by default, as other programs do, and allow users to
> override the install location by specifying the prefix explicitly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: T??r??k Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
> index 2e7fa3a..8e8c199 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
> @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ STRIP ?= strip
>  # runtime figures out where they are based on the path to the executable.
>  # This can help installing the suite in a relocatable way.
>  
> -prefix = $(HOME)
> +prefix = /usr/local
>  bindir_relative = bin
>  bindir = $(prefix)/$(bindir_relative)
>  mandir = share/man

Btw., we inherited that default prefix from the Git project.

Is there a way to get it into ~/bin/ if the user does not have permission to 
/usr/local ? (i.e. doesnt run it as root)

That's a really convenient aspect of doing a 'make install' as user. (Which i 
tend to do in most cases)

	Ingo