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From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] perf: add Makefile.deps for easier cross compiling
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:50:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151013105028.GA3628@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151012114229.GD20170@krava.brq.redhat.com>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:42:29PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 08:37:59PM +0200, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > In order to make it easier for people to qucikly get up and running with
> > a fairly full featured cross-compiled mainline perf, provide a
> > Makefile.deps which will download and build the required libraries,
> > which can then be used in a static build of perf:
> > 
> >  $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- -f Makefile.deps
> 
> Makefile.cross_compile or Makefile.cross might suit better

OK, I will change it to Makefile.cross.

> Could you provide more details help/doc on how to use it
> and what it's actualy doing?

I will add comments to the file with this information.

> running the command from changelog failed on my setup,
> please check attached log

Looks like you don't have a compiler with the name arm-linux-gcc in your
PATH?  The CROSS_COMPILE flag has the same meaning as in the perf and
kernel builds: it's the prefix for a cross-toolchain which is available
on the host.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-13 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-27 18:37 [PATCH 1/5] perf: unwind: fix unw_word_t pointer casts Rabin Vincent
2015-09-27 18:37 ` [PATCH 2/5] perf: unwind: pass symbol source to libunwind Rabin Vincent
2015-10-12 11:24   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-10-12 12:35     ` Namhyung Kim
2015-10-13 10:51       ` Rabin Vincent
2015-09-27 18:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] perf: unwind: use debug_frame if eh_frame is unusable Rabin Vincent
2015-10-12 11:28   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-10-14 13:13   ` [tip:perf/core] perf callchain: Use " tip-bot for Rabin Vincent
2015-09-27 18:37 ` [PATCH 4/5] tools: build: fix libiberty feature detection Rabin Vincent
2015-10-12 11:35   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-10-13 11:00     ` Rabin Vincent
2015-09-27 18:37 ` [PATCH 5/5] perf: add Makefile.deps for easier cross compiling Rabin Vincent
2015-10-12 11:42   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-10-13 10:50     ` Rabin Vincent [this message]
2015-10-13 11:52       ` Jiri Olsa
2015-10-10 15:49 ` [PATCH 1/5] perf: unwind: fix unw_word_t pointer casts Rabin Vincent
2015-10-10 23:34   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-12  8:38     ` Jiri Olsa
2015-10-14 13:14 ` [tip:perf/core] perf callchains: Fix " tip-bot for Rabin Vincent

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