Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] tools: Connect to the kernel build system

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>]

Em Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:16:11PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg escreveu:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:33:51PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 05:57:34PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg escreveu:
> > > Who-ever came up with the names "QUIET_SUBDIR" must have had a bad day...

> > Came from the git sources, where it still lives on:

> > [acme@sandy git]$ git show b7774343
> > commit b777434383bd2f365be6896d8c89be6c1b62a135
> > Author: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> > Date:   Wed Mar 7 00:44:49 2007 +0100
> >     Support of "make -s": do not output anything of the build itself
> >     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

> Part of the git build infrastructure has not impressed me - others parts are good.
> But then it is more than a year since I actually looked at it.
> 
> And no - I have no time left to actually do anything about it.

Neither me, similar impressions, for the Makefiles, I really want us to
move to what is used by our landlord, the kernel :-)

I also can see doing a 'make tools/menuconfig' to select what we want to
build in a particular perf build, for instance, I received requests for
building just 'perf record' to use it in embedded systems, collect your
events, push it to another machine, where one would use a full featured
perf build.

Or one without perl, if one hates that thing :-)

- Arnaldo