On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:43:07 +0200 (EET), Pekka Enberg wrote: > 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.
Nothing. ;-) It should be installed to a proper place - I just missed to do it before sending it. And with this RFC patches, I wanted to be confirmed that I was going to the right direction before doing something silly. :) Thanks, Namhyung -- 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/
