* Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 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
Assuming that in the normal case it can be made to work like a full build
of perf today (i.e. without forcing LD_PRELOAD) then splitting the
libraries away looks like a much better solution than splitting the
binary.
Thanks,
Ingo
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