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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:00:05 +0800 From: Bamvor Zhang Jian <bamvor.zhangjian@...aro.org> To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, "Zhangjian (Bamvor)" <bamvor.zhangjian@...wei.com>, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>, Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT Hi, On 21 March 2017 at 16:35, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote: > Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> writes: > >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:55 AM, <bamvor.zhangjian@...wei.com> wrote: >>> From: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@...aro.org> >>> >>> Enable O and KBUILD_OUTPUT for kselftest. User could compile kselftest >>> to another directory by passing O or KBUILD_OUTPUT. And O is high >>> priority than KBUILD_OUTPUT. >> >> Sorry for noticing this late, but this patch >> (a8ba798bc8ec663cf02e80b0dd770324de9bafd9) is really annoying for >> people who *don't* use these fancy options: > > Yeah sorry, it wasn't quite ready to go in. > >> $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/x86 ldt_gdt_32 >> make: Entering directory '/home/luto/apps/linux/tools/testing/selftests/x86' >> Makefile:44: warning: overriding recipe for target 'clean' >> ../lib.mk:55: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'clean' >> make: *** No rule to make target 'ldt_gdt_32'. Stop. >> make: Leaving directory '/home/luto/apps/linux/tools/testing/selftests/x86' >> >> Is there any way that you can make this work again? > > There obviously is *a* way, but I'm not sure there's a simple and > obviously correct way that is an easy fix for 4.11. > > I see at least 18 Makefile's in tools/testing/selftests that use > $(OUTPUT)/, which would all need to be updated at least to use $(OUTPUT) > (no trailing slash), and then some other changes to not propagate OUTPUT > when the user didn't specify it. But hopefully someone will prove me > wrong. I also look at this issue. Originally, I use OUTPUT without slash in my patch. People argue that it is not very clear. So, I add slash in curent version. > > As a (poor) alternative you can do: > > $ cd tools/testing/selftests/x86; make $PWD/ldt_gdt_32 > > or just: > > $ make -C tools/testing/selftests/x86 > > cheers Do we really need "make -C tools/testing/selftests/x86 ldt_gdt_32"? It is useful but it will skip the top level Makefile of selftests. Regards Bamvor > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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