linux-kernel - Re: relative objtree change broke tar builds?

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Message-ID: <53A20283.5070900@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:20:03 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
CC:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: relative objtree change broke tar builds?

On 06/18/14 12:47, Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 18.6.2014 17:58, Randy Dunlap napsal(a):
>> On 06/18/14 06:14, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:33:22PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>>> Dne 18.6.2014 14:20, J. Bruce Fields napsal(a):
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>>>>> Dne 18.6.2014 00:38, J. Bruce Fields napsal(a):
>>>>>>> The changelog there says
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	The main Makefile sets its working directory to the object tree
>>>>>>> 	and never changes it again. Therefore, we can use '.' instead of
>>>>>>> 	the absolute path.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But the main Makefile also exports objtree, and a quick grep suggests
>>>>>>> lots of other uses outside the main Makefile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have examples? Besides your report, I'm only aware of make
>>>>>> deb-pkg and make *docs. What else?
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't looked.
>>>>>
>>>>> I only note that grep finds 47 files referencing that variable, and
>>>>> absent some argument that the remaining ones are correct, I'd be
>>>>> inclined to revert.
>>>>
>>>> Do these 47 files change the working directory before referencing the
>>>> variable?
>>>
>>> Sorry, I'm not volunteering to check.
>>>
>>> Note also that other variables are defined in terms of objtree, and they
>>> may be exported or passed to other scripts.
>>
>>
>> I'll note one side effect that I really dislike:
>> If not in silent mode, scripts/mkmakefile tells me that the it is
>> generating ./Makefile.  I want to see the real path there instead of '.'.
> 
> The idea is that one should be able to compare as much as possible
> between the build of /usr/src/linux-<version_a> built in
> /usr/src/linux-<version_a>/build and /usr/src/linux-<version_b> built in
> /usr/src/linux-<version_b>/build. One can now even compare the build log
> with -j1, although that was not the primary goal. So if the changed
> message is considered problematic, I can change it to show the full path
> again, like
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/mkmakefile b/scripts/mkmakefile
> index 84af27b..9d291f5 100644
> --- a/scripts/mkmakefile
> +++ b/scripts/mkmakefile
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ then
>         exit 0
>  fi
>  if [ "${quiet}" != "silent_" ]; then
> -       echo "  GEN     $2/Makefile"
> +       echo "  GEN     $(cd $2 && /bin/pwd)/Makefile"
>  fi
> 
>  cat << EOF > $2/Makefile
> 
> Opinions?

works for me.  Thanks.


-- 
~Randy
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