perf tools: Allow to specify custom linker command

Allow to specify custom linker command. This fixes MIPS64 builds for
64-bit userspace as it will allow to pass a linker using the correct
linker flags for 64-bit ABI (by default GNU binutils ld will assume
N32).

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435751683-18500-2-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index 0e0938afbbb18c6335ce7807ad1d88d143a4b7c4..7a4b549214e34715aaf2ff7b834598ef2bae8080 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE: ../../.git/HEAD
        $(Q)touch $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE
 
 CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
-LD = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
+LD ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
 AR = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
 PKG_CONFIG = $(CROSS_COMPILE)pkg-config