Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 0/8] perf tools: Minimal build without libelf dependency (v2) | From | Namhyung Kim <> | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:05:10 +0900 |
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Hi Peter,
2012-06-22 (금), 11:47 +0200, Peter Zijlstra: > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:37 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > > And then I realized that the perf record needs to know about the > > build-id's anyway. :( So I implemented a poor man's version of elf > > parser only for parsing the build-id info. > > Why? the very first versions didn't know about any of that nonsense :-) > It works just fine as long as you don't go change binaries around. > > That said, you did the work already, so no objection, just saying > builtids aren't that important.
I'm not sure I understood you correctly. But 'perf record' needs to know about the build-id's to save them to perf.data for 'perf report' later. And 'perf archive' also needs to know about them to select necessary binaries for the session.
-- Regards, Namhyung Kim
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