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profile-manual: document how to build perf manpages on target

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Thanks to closing yocto bug #3388, there is now a simple way
to build the perf manpages for use on the target

(From yocto-docs rev: 12dd3ecb054c1668cdccc220ca21b88635531784)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Normally, you should be able to invoke the man pages via perf itself
e.g. 'perf help' or 'perf help record'.
However, by default Yocto doesn't install man pages, but perf invokes
the man pages for most help functionality. This is a bug and is being
addressed by a Yocto bug: :yocto_bugs:`Bug 3388 - perf: enable man pages for
basic 'help' functionality </show_bug.cgi?id=3388>`.
To have the perf manpages installed on your target, modify your
configuration as follows::
IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " perf perf-doc"
DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " api-documentation"
The man pages in text form, along with some other files, such as a set
of examples, can be found in the 'perf' directory of the kernel tree::
of examples, can also be found in the 'perf' directory of the kernel tree::
tools/perf/Documentation