Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Don't use brace expansion.

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:43:47PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch escreveu:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 12:29 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > More seriously, so there is a reason for that to be like that and you're
> > not aware of any other shorter or more convenient way of achieving that

> One (obvious) alternative is to have rules triggering on the
> non-existence of these directories.

Can you provide those please?
 
> > goal, right?

> Hmm, I'm not a "perf person". Which are the sufficient use-cases/tests
> that one can do to play around with the Makefile?
> 
> `make -C tools/perf` is probably not enough.

Right, not enough, what those mkdir calls were added for was exactly for
a different usecase:

make -C tools/perf -O=~/build/perf/

So that it doesn't pollutes the source code directories with the object
files, behaving in a similar fashion as when using O= in the kernel
proper.
 
- Arnaldo
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