From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753595Ab1GUTEZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:04:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45001 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752515Ab1GUTEY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:04:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:04:07 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Jiri Olsa Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension Message-ID: <20110721190407.GC24324@ghostprotocols.net> References: <1311266726-20655-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <20110721171148.GB24324@ghostprotocols.net> <20110721184715.GA2425@jolsa.Belkin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110721184715.GA2425@jolsa.Belkin> X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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