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author | David Howells <[email protected]> | 2012-11-05 21:02:08 +0000 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> | 2012-11-14 16:53:22 -0300 |
commit | 9db48cd5ccd0d127e991c15509a0241a18043e91 (patch) | |
tree | 6955e5c1fdfcd8961a638982cc517aa281147564 /lib/string_helpers.c | |
parent | 0bca6cff89c6e7d1e383993cccf0f59146874a34 (diff) |
tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile
Honour the O= flag that was passed to a higher level Makefile and then passed
down as part of a tool build.
To make this work, the top-level Makefile passes the original O= flag and
subdir=tools to the tools/Makefile, and that in turn passes
subdir=$(O)/$(subdir)/foodir when building tool foo in directory
$(O)/$(subdir)/foodir (where the intervening slashes aren't added if an
element is missing).
For example, take perf. This is found in tools/perf/. Assume we're building
into directory ~/zebra/, so we pass O=~/zebra to make. Dependening on where
we run the build from, we see:
make run in dir $(OUTPUT) dir
======================= ==================
linux ~/zebra/tools/perf/
linux/tools ~/zebra/perf/
linux/tools/perf ~/zebra/
and if O= is not set, we get:
make run in dir $(OUTPUT) dir
======================= ==================
linux linux/tools/perf/
linux/tools linux/tools/perf/
linux/tools/perf linux/tools/perf/
The output directories are created by the descend function if they don't
already exist.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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