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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@infradead.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: perf, tools: Move gtk browser into separate perfgtk executable
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:08:04 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvuozerv.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130805082320.GA9562@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 5 Aug 2013 01:23:20 -0700")

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 01:23:20 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> If you want fewer dependencies then build with 'make NO_GTK=1'.
>
> Doesn't help the distros.  Installing perf and pulling all the graphics
> libraries in is highly annoying, especially in size constrained VM or
> Cloud images.  Having a separate binary or at least an ldopen()able
> plugin that can go into a separate package is highly desirable.

I wrote a patch series [1] separating gtk code to a dso and use it with
libdl last year.  But I didn't get much feedback probably due to the
mistake of not installing the dso to a proper place.  It'd be great if
you guys take a look at it and give some comments.

Thanks,
Namhyung


[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/14/510

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05  2:22 [PATCH] RFC: perf, tools: Move gtk browser into separate perfgtk executable Andi Kleen
2013-08-05  8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-05  8:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-05  8:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-05  8:34       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-05  9:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-06  6:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-12 18:19             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-12 19:25               ` Vince Weaver
2013-08-13 10:48                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-13 12:11                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-08-13 16:00                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-13 21:57                       ` Vince Weaver
2013-08-13 22:17                         ` Andi Kleen
2013-08-14 14:13                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-08-14 14:20                           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-13 14:03                   ` Vince Weaver
2013-08-13 16:04                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-05  9:08     ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2013-08-05  9:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-05  9:18         ` Pekka Enberg
2013-08-05 19:10       ` Andi Kleen

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