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@@ -4,7 +4,22 @@ such as instructions executed, cache-misses suffered, or branches
mispredicted. They form a basis for profiling applications to trace
dynamic control flow and identify hotspots.
-Please note that this SBo doesn't have any sources in the DOWNLOAD
-setting, as the sources are already part of a full slackware install.
-
Optional dependencies: audit, numactl, libunwind
+
+Please note that this build doesn't have any sources in the .info
+file, as the sources are already part of the Slackware kernel-source
+package. Your running kernel's version should match the kernel-source
+version. If it doesn't:
+
+- If your kernel source is located in /usr/src/linux-$VERSION, you
+ can export KERNEL=<version> in the script's environment. Example:
+
+ export KERNEL=4.4.240
+
+- If your kernel source is somewhere else, you can export
+ KERNEL=</path/to/source>. Example:
+
+ export KERNEL=/home/myuser/kernels/linux-4.2.240
+
+Please note that the package's version number will match the version
+of the kernel source, *not* necessarily what's in the perf.info file.