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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:14:32 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools: Add a toplevel Makefile
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Could this also be accessible via 'make tools' in the toplevel 
> > Makefile?
> > 
> > I'd love to be able to type:
> > 
> >   make -j tools perf install
> 
> Well,
> 
> you could do
> 
> $ make -j -C tools perf

Arguably I could also type:

  cd tools/perf; make -j install

:-)

So I just wanted to bring this up, that integrating it into the 
top level Makefile might make sense. Or not.

Thanks,

	Ingo