Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf: allow user to indicate path to objdump in command line | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:11:49 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:05 -0600, David Ahern wrote: > On 9/4/12 4:32 AM, Maciek Borzecki wrote: > > When analyzing perf data from hosts of other architecture than one of the local > > host it's useful to call objdump that is part of a toolchain for that > > architecture. Instead of calling regular objdump, call one that user specified > > in command line. > > Why not set the PATH to make the toolchain's version the one used by perf?
At least one reason is that cross toolchains are usually built such that the resulting binaries are called <target>-objdump, <target>-gcc etc.
cheers
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