Hi, On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 01:23:20 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> If you want fewer dependencies then build with 'make NO_GTK=1'. > > Doesn't help the distros. Installing perf and pulling all the graphics > libraries in is highly annoying, especially in size constrained VM or > Cloud images. Having a separate binary or at least an ldopen()able > plugin that can go into a separate package is highly desirable.
I wrote a patch series [1] separating gtk code to a dso and use it with libdl last year. But I didn't get much feedback probably due to the mistake of not installing the dso to a proper place. It'd be great if you guys take a look at it and give some comments. Thanks, Namhyung [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/14/510 -- 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/
