Re: [PATCH 02/36] tools build: Add detected config support

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Jan 15 2015 - 11:22:21 EST


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:50:40AM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> On 1/15/15 5:54 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >Adding support to include detected configuration makefile
> >into the build process. This will allow the Build objects
> >to be configurable based on the config data, like:
> >
> > perf-$(CONFIG_KRAVA) += krava.o
> >
> >The configuration is stored in '.config-detected' file,
> >which is generated for each compilation.
>
> So this file is similar to kernel's .config file and is generated based on
> today's autoprobing?
>

yep, it's the way to pass detected data/variables from perf detection
system (config/Makefile) to the build framework, it get's generated
every build

the plan is to have '.config' in the future that will gather user's
configuration

jirka
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