Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754358Ab0HPPuv (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:50:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59282 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751390Ab0HPPuu (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:50:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:50:23 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Kusanagi Kouichi , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Don't use brace expansion. Message-ID: <20100816155022.GD13095@ghostprotocols.net> References: <20100816124101.1829415C039@msa104.auone-net.jp> <1281967761.17267.6.camel@thorin> <1281969043.1926.1469.camel@laptop> <1281970478.17267.12.camel@thorin> <20100816152914.GC13095@ghostprotocols.net> <1281973427.17267.16.camel@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1281973427.17267.16.camel@thorin> X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 32 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/