tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:53:43 +0000 (08:53 -0600)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:13:00 +0000 (16:13 +0100)
Running "make O=foo" (with a relative directory path) fails with:

  scripts/Makefile.include:3: *** O=foo does not exist.  Stop.
  /home/jpoimboe/git/linux/Makefile:1547: recipe for target 'tools/objtool' failed

The tools Makefile gets confused by the relative path and tries to build
objtool in tools/foo.  Convert the output directory to an absolute path
before passing it to the tools Makefile.

Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94a078c6c998fac9f01a14f574008bf7dff40191.1457016803.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Makefile

index 62be03b..2c27a01 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1509,11 +1509,11 @@ image_name:
 # Clear a bunch of variables before executing the submake
 tools/: FORCE
        $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
-       $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(O) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/
+       $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(shell cd $(objtree) && /bin/pwd) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/
 
 tools/%: FORCE
        $(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
-       $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(O) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/ $*
+       $(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(shell cd $(objtree) && /bin/pwd) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/ $*
 
 # Single targets
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------