Re: [BUGFIX PATCH] tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option

[Randy Dunlap]

On 3/6/20 10:10 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 08:26:43 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/6/20 7:07 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>> Thanks Geert,
>>>
>>> So Randy, what you will get if you add "echo $(PWD)" instead of "cd $(PWD)" ?
>>> Is that still empty or shows the tools/bootconfig directory?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>> OK, in these lines:
>> +       dummy := $(if $(shell cd $(PWD); test -d $(O) || echo $(O)),$(error O=$(O) does not exist),)
>> +       ABSOLUTE_O := $(shell cd $(PWD); cd $(O) ; pwd)
>>
>> I changed both "cd $(PWD)" to "echo $(PWD)" and did
>> $ make O=BUILD -C tools/bootconfig/
>>
>> and this is the build log:
>>
>> make: Entering directory '/home/rdunlap/lnx/next/linux-next-20200306/tools/bootconfig'
>> cc ../../lib/bootconfig.c main.c -Wall -g -I./include -o bootconfig
>> make: Leaving directory '/home/rdunlap/lnx/next/linux-next-20200306/tools/bootconfig'
>>
>>
>> Does that help?
> 
> Hmm, did you apply "[PATCH 1/2] bootconfig: Support O=<builddir> option" too?

oh crud.  nope.  Sorry about that.

Building bootconfig with O=BUILD is now working.

Thanks for your time and patience.

> Also, I found this is not enough for perf. perf does more tricky thing in its Makefile.

Ack.

-- 
~Randy