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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATLnRqLeisBOiWbxvUZ0N8p1k8DRHv-sGMUwT0SmCuoww@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 18:12:47 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
Cc: "nicolas@...sle.eu" <nicolas@...sle.eu>, "conor@...nel.org" <conor@...nel.org>, 
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, "robh@...nel.org" <robh@...nel.org>, 
	"linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "krzk@...nel.org" <krzk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src)
 for source directory

On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 6:24 AM Edgecombe, Rick P
<rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 11:13 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > There are two solutions, depending on what you want to achieve.
> >
> > The official way is to pass the absolute path to M=
> > (or relative path to ../linux-tdm-kvm-out)
> >
> > The other unofficial way is to pass VPATH.
> > The external module build does not officially support
> > the separate output directory, but you can still
> > do it in this case.
> >
> > [1] will work like before.
>
> The absolute path worked, but why not make it use the relative path by default
> in this case? "arch/x86/kvm/" shouldn't be confused with an absolute path...




If you give a relative path to the M= option,
it is relative to the top of the build tree,
not relative to the top of the source tree.


If you use the relative path correctly,
it is interchangeable with the absolute path.


It did not work as you expected because
you used it in the wrong way.




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada

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