linux/tools/power/cpupower
Josh Boyer b8ea351b0e Revert "cpupower Makefile change to help run the tool without 'make install'"
This reverts commit 5c1de006e8.

While the original commit makes it easier to run cpupower from the
local build directory, it also leaves the binary with a rather poor
rpath of './' in it after it is installed on a system via 'make install'.

This is considered bad practice and can cause cpupower to fail in
rpmbuild with the following error:

ERROR   0004: file '/usr/bin/cpupower' contains an insecure rpath './' in [./]
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.A6u26r (%install)
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.A6u26r (%install)

Developers should be able to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to achieve the same
effect and not introduce rpath into the binary.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@feoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-03-11 21:56:49 +01:00
..
bench cpupower: bench: parse.c: Fix several minor errors 2014-07-30 01:57:13 +02:00
debug cpufreq: Make linux-pm@vger.kernel.org official mailing list 2014-05-01 01:15:32 +02:00
lib
man cpupower: Remove mc and smt power aware scheduler info/settings 2014-05-17 00:36:37 +02:00
po
utils tools / cpupower: Fix no idle state information return value 2014-12-19 23:01:12 +01:00
.gitignore
Makefile Revert "cpupower Makefile change to help run the tool without 'make install'" 2015-03-11 21:56:49 +01:00
README cpupower: Remove dead link to homepage, and update the targets built. 2014-05-17 00:36:36 +02:00
ToDo cpupower: Remove dead link to homepage, and update the targets built. 2014-05-17 00:36:36 +02:00

The cpupower package consists of the following elements:

requirements
------------

On x86 pciutils is needed at runtime (-lpci).
For compilation pciutils-devel (pci/pci.h) and a gcc version
providing cpuid.h is needed.
For both it's not explicitly checked for (yet).


libcpupower
----------

"libcpupower" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace
tools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This
allows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of
the interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc
interfaces [depending on configuration, see below].


compilation and installation
----------------------------

make
su
make install

should suffice on most systems. It builds libcpupower to put in
/usr/lib; cpupower, cpufreq-bench_plot.sh to put in /usr/bin; and
cpufreq-bench to put in /usr/sbin. If you want to set up the paths
differently and/or want to configure the package to your specific
needs, you need to open "Makefile" with an editor of your choice and
edit the block marked CONFIGURATION.


THANKS
------
Many thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and
libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpupower;
to Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his
powernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file;
and to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of 
cpupower.


        Dominik Brodowski