Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootconfig: Support O=<builddir> option

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 15:04:43 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 3/3/20 3:24 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Support O=<builddir> option to build bootconfig tool in
> > the other directory. As same as other tools, if you specify
> > O=<builddir>, bootconfig command is build under <builddir>.  
> 
> Hm.  If I use
> $ make O=~/tmp -C tools/bootconfig
> 
> that works: it builds bootconfig in ~/tmp.
> 
> OTOH, if I sit at the top of the kernel source tree
> and I enter
> $ mkdir builddir
> $ make O=builddir -C tools/bootconfig
> 
> I get this:
> make: Entering directory '/home/rdunlap/lnx/next/linux-next-20200304/tools/bootconfig'
> ../scripts/Makefile.include:4: *** O=builddir does not exist.  Stop.
> make: Leaving directory '/home/rdunlap/lnx/next/linux-next-20200304/tools/bootconfig'
> 
> so it looks like tools/scripts/Makefile.include doesn't handle this case correctly
> (which is how I do all of my builds).
> 

Do you build perf that way?

$ mkdir buildir
$ make O=buildir -C tools/perf/
make: Entering directory '/work/git/linux-test.git/tools/perf'
  BUILD:   Doing 'make -j24' parallel build
../scripts/Makefile.include:4: *** O=/work/git/linux-test.git/tools/perf/buildir does not exist.  Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/work/git/linux-test.git/tools/perf'

-- Steve