From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937681Ab0CPKKk (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:10:40 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:50584 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937644Ab0CPKKi (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:10:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:10:31 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: T??r??k Edwin Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?unknown-8bit?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYw==?= Weisbecker , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: install into /usr/local by default. Message-ID: <20100316101031.GL7961@elte.hu> References: <4B9F3EEC.7050104@gmail.com> <1268733435-30225-1-git-send-email-edwintorok@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1268733435-30225-1-git-send-email-edwintorok@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * T??r??k Edwin 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 > --- > 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