From: David Howells Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:02:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile X-Git-Tag: v3.7-rc8~12^2^2~2^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf35182ffcd00d8b36d56210ffdac110e5624d7d;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378.1352379110@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Reading git-diff-tree failed