* Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> wrote:
> hi,
> I'm following up on latest post from Alexis:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141427580405357&w=2
>
> v3 changes:
> - disabling only builtin rules, keeping builtin variables in place
> because some projects we depends on using them (traceevent) [David]
> - fixed empy source list issue that happened on arm [Will, Mark]
> - updated to the current Arnaldo's perf/core branch
> - added automated tests into: tools/build/tests/
> - tested on arm64,ppc64,s390,x86_64,i386
>
> v2 changes:
> - build Makefiles librarized and moved to 'tools/build' [Ingo]
> - several minor fixies [Namhyung]
> - tested on other archs now - x86_64, i386, powerpc
> - moved tools/lib/* under new build framework to show
> that it's possible ;-)
> included traceevent/lockdep maintainers to get the feedback
> - omitted last 2 patches
>
> The patchset is also available in:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
> perf/build
>
> All tests/make tests passed.
Very nice! I gave it a quick test and saw no problems, behavior,
speed and functionality of the build appears to be identical to
the old system.
> Also now we have the full dependency check ((gcc -Wp,-MD,...
> stuff) and build command line is stored/checked automatically
> by the build system.
Btw., another thing that might be nice to extract into
tools/build/ [or tools/config/] is the build/OS features
detection framework - it goes hand in hand with the build
system.
Thanks,
Ingo
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