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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix empty version number when building outside of a git repo
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On 29/09/2022 20:06, Will Chandler wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2022, at 6:09, John Garry wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... maybe someone would want to customise PERF-VERSION-FILE for their own distro. Not sure. But then fiddling with PERF-VERSION-FILE might break the parsing so...I guess not.
> Yeah, seems like a bad idea. Doing a quick search, Void Linux does seem to be
> trying to set a custom version string in their build script[0], but I don't
> think passing PERF_VERSION as an argument to make has worked since 2013 with
> 3cecaa200227 ("perf tools: Do not include PERF-VERSION-FILE to Makefile, 2013-01-16").
>
> [0]https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/fdb3515c33f2bb997392ea6992e6bbb82c4376c5/srcpkgs/linux-tools/template#L56
>
>> BTW, is there any other method of building the perf code not considered? So far I know:
>> a. in git tree
>> b. perf-tar-src-pkg
>> c. tarball
> Those are all that come to mind for me as well.
>
> Let me know if you'd like me to re-roll the patch using the pre-7572733b8499
> approach.
> .

I have a slight preference that you do like pre-7572733b8499 if that is
ok. The reason is that way was a bit more tried and tested.

Thanks,
John

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