Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>]

Em Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:47:15PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:11:48PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:45:26PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > Changing the distutils to use their own default 'build'
> > > directory.
> > > 
> > > Such setup makes the install command simple, because using
> > > --build-lib and --build-temp does not seem to comply with
> > > the way the distutils' install commands expect it.
> > > 
> > > Also keeping the python/perf.so file, so it could be used
> > > for testing as of until now.
> > 
> > Yeah, I gave up when I couldn't get:
> > 
> > $ make O=/tmp/build-dir-for-perf/ -C tools/perf/ install
> > 
> > to work, does it now? Checking...
> 
> nope, I added install-python_ext since it installs to the
> python system lib area, and it could break standard install

But where is that it picks the binaries built? The problem I was
experiencing was that it wasn't obeying O=, just using the source dir
as the build dir, effectively building it again, in a different place.
 
> I think there's a way to install python modules under $HOME,
> maybe we could do that if no DESTDIR is specified..
> I can add it later ;)

Right, but this is not what I was talking about :-)

- Arnaldo