Re: [PATCH 03/15] perf: Build libtraceevent.a

[Frederic Weisbecker]

2012/4/6 Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Right, what I meant was to add the $(LIBTRACEEVENT): target above to the
> toplevel Makefile so that when you're in the kernel source tree, you do
>
> $ make tools/perf
>
> it has a target $(LIBTRACEEVENT) dependent on it in the toplevel
> Makefile instead of perf's Makefile to avoid duplication. Then, when
> perf is rebuilt, it simply links with this lib. IOW, not have the "make
> -C" call in perf's Makefile but in the toplevel Makefile because other
> tools will want to use libtraceevent.a too and link against it.
>
> Oh well, the toplevel Makefile patches aren't upstream either so we're
> wasting cycles here, I'll fix that up when the times comes.

Yeah let's sort those details out once we have that library merged ;)
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