Re: [PATCH] [1/2] perf: Make location of kernel source configurable

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Dec 07 2009 - 00:31:44 EST


On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:25:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 03:07:30PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >
> > > tools/perf has no support for separate object directories
> > > and lots of hard coded paths assuming that the kernel source
> > > is always in ../..
> > >
> > > As a first step of compiling it separately without messing
> > > up clean source trees allow to configure the kernel source
> > > location using a KERNELSRC variable
> > >
> > > This allows at least to copy the whole tools/perf
> > > directory elsewhere and build it separately.
> > >
> > > The default is still ../.., so for a standard build
> > > nothing changes
> > >
> > > This also removes a lot of ugly ../.. from the source.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > It worry about that too.
> >
> > Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Frederic, mind queueing Andi's fix up in your tree and testing it there,
> before pushing it to me via the regular route?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo


Sure.

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