Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] perf docs: Document cross compilation

[Leo Yan]

On 6/10/24 19:43, Ian Rogers wrote:
>     Records the commands for cross compilation with two methods.
>
>     The first method relies on Multiarch. The second approach is to
>     explicitly
>     specify the PKG_CONFIG variables, which is widely used in build system
>     (like Buildroot, Yocto, etc).
>
>
> There is also:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git/tree/tools/perf/Documentation/android.txt?h=perf-tools-next
> it looks very crufty, not least as it is referring to 32-bit builds
>
> Could this be refreshed or deleted?

Yeah, the doc is quite old.

Actually, this patch series is to support static building, I assume a 
main usage case is to use the static building binary for Android.

I will give a try for building perf with Android NDK. I will base on my 
test result to update the file android.txt or remove it.

Thanks
Leo