Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Török Edwin <> | Subject | [PATCH] perf: install into /usr/local by default. | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:57:15 +0200 |
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It was confusing to install into $(HOME)/bin, especially since there was no documentation mentioning where perf gets installed by default. So install to /usr/local by default, as other programs do, and allow users to override the install location by specifying the prefix explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> --- tools/perf/Makefile | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile index 2e7fa3a..8e8c199 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Makefile +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ STRIP ?= strip # runtime figures out where they are based on the path to the executable. # This can help installing the suite in a relocatable way. -prefix = $(HOME) +prefix = /usr/local bindir_relative = bin bindir = $(prefix)/$(bindir_relative) mandir = share/man -- 1.7.0 -- 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/
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