Re: [PATCH 0/5] kbuild: Use relative paths if possible

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Apr 30 2014 - 12:14:09 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:08:08PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series changes the Makefile to use relative paths for $(objtree),
> always setting it to '.', and for $(srctree) setting either to '.' or
> '..', when building in the source tree or a subdirectory thereof,
> respectively. The goal is to make compiler messages and Ooopses more
> readable by avoiding the full path to the source/object directory.
>
> Patch 2/5 is just an unrelated cleanup.
>
> Michal
>
> Michal Marek (5):
> firmware: Simplify directory creation
> firmware: Use $(quote) in the Makefile
> kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree)
> kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree
> kbuild: Use relative path when building in a subdir of the source tree

For patch 2,3,4 and 5 you can add my:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch 1 also looks good, but I did not fully grasp it and this is MO
implied by an ack. So please do not hold it back due to this as
the cleanup looked good.

Sam
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