On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:36:12PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > [...] The basic idea is the same as in kbuild system, with some 
> > minor changes to allow for multiple binaries build definitions.
> 
> >  tools/perf/Build                                |  48 ++
> >  tools/perf/Build.include                        |  75 ++++
> >  tools/perf/Documentation/Build                  | 123 +++++
> >  tools/perf/Makefile.build                       | 122 +++++
> >  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                        | 566 
> > +++---------------------
> 
> >  47 files changed, 827 insertions(+), 541 deletions(-)
> 
> Even the diffstat looks pretty good: only a modest line count 
> increase.
> 
> It would be useful to put this (and other build features - such 
> as features/parallelisation support) into tools/kbuild/ though, 
> so that other tooling can make easy use of it as well. For 
> example tools/kvm/ (an external project) started off with an 
> earlier version of the perf build system.

right, I'll put it in tools/build.. looks like the tools/lib/*
could use it, probably others as well

thanks,
jirka

> 
> Sharing that would make quite a bit of sense, as tooling (and 
> most user-space project) build systems are usually have pretty 
> poor quality.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       Ingo
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