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

[Frederic Weisbecker]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


It worry about that too.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

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