tools/perf/build: Fix O=/some/dir perf.o type of targets
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:14:59 +0000 (12:14 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2013 06:49:02 +0000 (08:49 +0200)
commit1f7c645ab4b8326fef5afcd842795e071ecce9df
tree1f12b0c79c03d7e7803c32f2902a6016b6bf358b
parentb102420b500da97e0fc18d94f0600bddeced1b99
tools/perf/build: Fix O=/some/dir perf.o type of targets

If someone specifies a single target, mixed with O=, the following way:

    hubble:~/tip/tools/perf> make O=/tmp/perf util/stat.o
    BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
    gcc  -Wbad-function-cast -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k [...]

The build might even fail, if a target depends on other targets:

    hubble:~/tip/tools/perf> make O=/tmp/perf perf.o
    ...
    perf.c: In function ‘handle_options’:
    perf.c:155:21: error: ‘PERF_HTML_PATH’ undeclared (first use in this function)

The correct way to invoke such targets is:

    hubble:~/tip/tools/perf> make O=/tmp/perf /tmp/perf/perf.o
    BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
    GEN /tmp/perf/common-cmds.h
    CC /tmp/perf/perf.o

But that's unnecessary typing and it's also easy to mistakenly build into the
source directory.

To fix this remove the generic suffix rules and add redirection to $(OUTPUT)
for the most popular .o targets.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mk0oiukmhgSbrll6chrPkkqr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/perf/Makefile.perf