linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:12:13 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

Em Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 03:43:41PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> But if I do it as a normal user and then try installing as root... it
> behaves like you described, duh :-\
> 
> Because of this:
> 
>     * new build flags or prefix
> 
> Will check...

This is the cause:


### Detect prefix changes
TRACK_CFLAGS = $(subst ','\'',$(CFLAGS)):\
             $(bindir_SQ):$(perfexecdir_SQ):$(template_dir_SQ):$(prefix_SQ)

$(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS: .FORCE-PERF-CFLAGS
        @FLAGS='$(TRACK_CFLAGS)'; \
            if test x"$$FLAGS" != x"`cat $(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS 2>/dev/null`" ; then \
                echo 1>&2 "    * new build flags or prefix"; \
                echo "$$FLAGS" >$(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS; \
            fi

That "prefix" thing, i.e.:

             $(bindir_SQ):$(perfexecdir_SQ):$(template_dir_SQ):$(prefix_SQ)


As user it is:

/home/acme/bin:libexec/perf-core:share/perf-core/templates:/home/acme

while as root it becomes:

/root/bin:libexec/perf-core:share/perf-core/templates:/root

And that causes the whole thing to be rebuilt when going from 'make' as normal
user to 'make install' as root.

All the other things in that TRACK_CFLAGS part is equal.

We probably got all this from the 'git' makefile, checking how it is done
there these days...

- Arnaldo
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