linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: scripts/gdb: bring the "abspath" back

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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:51:41 -0700
From: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To: j.granados@...sung.com
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>, Kieran Bingham <kbingham@...nel.org>, 
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: scripts/gdb: bring the "abspath" back

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM Joel Granados via B4 Relay
<devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
>
> Use the "abspath" call when symlinking the gdb python scripts in
> scripts/gdb/linux. This call is needed to avoid broken links when
> running the scripts_gdb target on a different build directory
> (O=builddir).
>
> Fixes: 659bbf7e1b08 ("kbuild: scripts/gdb: Replace missed $(srctree)/$(src) w/ $(src)")
> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@...sung.com>
> ---
>  scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Ah, good call. Yeah, this makes sense to me and also seems to produce
reasonable symlinks. Sorry for not coming up with this originally.

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>