[OE-core] [PATCH 08/40] perf: Fix linux-tools to ensure perf is installed under "fakeroot"

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 12:36 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> If perf isn't installed under "fakeroot" (pseudo) control, all of the files
> are given the build user's uid/gid.

The bit about do_install_perf() seems reasonable, but why does
do_compile_perf() need to run under fakeroot?

> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-tools.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-tools.inc
> index ef81650..88a1c5b 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-tools.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-tools.inc
> @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ do_compile_perf_libc-uclibc () {
>  do_install_perf_libc-uclibc () {
>  	:
>  }
> -do_compile_perf() {
> +fakeroot do_compile_perf() {
>  	oe_runmake -C ${S}/tools/perf CC="${CC}" LD="${LD}" prefix=${prefix} NO_NEWT=1 NO_DWARF=1
>  }
>  
> -do_install_perf() {
> +fakeroot do_install_perf() {
>  	oe_runmake -C ${S}/tools/perf CC="${CC}" LD="${LD}" prefix=${prefix} DESTDIR=${D} install NO_NEWT=1 NO_DWARF=1
>  }
>  

p.