On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Namhyung Kim wrote: > This is an RFC patchset to separate GTK GUI codes to a shared object, > called libperf-gtk.so and use it with libdl. It's in an early-stage > so probably has some rough edges, but I'd like to get some comments. > > For now, the libperf-gtk.so (I'm open to a better name suggestion) > contains whole libperf.a and libtraceevent.a for simplicity. And > because of that, every single object in perf tools needs to be built > as a PIC like libtraceevent does. > > As a result, library dependency of the perf itself reduced like this:
[snip] > To run GTK report browser, you can do it with usual --gtk option but > you might need to setup LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD ./perf report --gtk > > Missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH will lead to a fallback TUI or stdio (for > NO_NEWT=1 build) report browser. What's the benefit of doing this? Requiring users to specify LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems like a major PITA. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/