linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf report: compile tips.txt in perf binary

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Date:   Wed, 26 May 2021 13:54:26 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Denys Zagorui <dzagorui@...co.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, namhyung@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf report: compile tips.txt in perf binary

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 04:15:12AM -0700, Denys Zagorui wrote:
> It seems there is some need to have an ability to invoke perf from
> build directory without installation
> (84cfac7f05e1: perf tools: Set and pass DOCDIR to builtin-report.c)
> DOCDIR definition contains an absolute path to kernel source directory.
> It is build machine related info and it makes perf binary unreproducible.
> 
> This can be avoided by compiling tips.txt in perf directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Zagorui <dzagorui@...co.com>

for patchset

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>

thanks,
jirka