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

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Message-ID: <20091207053131.GC5262@nowhere>
Date:	Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:31:32 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] perf: Make location of kernel source configurable

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:25:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> 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@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > 
> > It worry about that too.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> 
> 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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