Patch "tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tools-support-relative-directory-path-for-o.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e17cf3a80d4ba0c4e40bf1a89deb1354c2e10e14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 08:53:43 -0600
Subject: tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

commit e17cf3a80d4ba0c4e40bf1a89deb1354c2e10e14 upstream.

Running "make O=foo" (with a relative directory path) fails with:

  scripts/Makefile.include:3: *** O=foo does not exist.  Stop.
  /home/jpoimboe/git/linux/Makefile:1547: recipe for target 'tools/objtool' failed

The tools Makefile gets confused by the relative path and tries to build
objtool in tools/foo.  Convert the output directory to an absolute path
before passing it to the tools Makefile.

Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94a078c6c998fac9f01a14f574008bf7dff40191.1457016803.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Makefile |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1506,11 +1506,11 @@ image_name:
 # Clear a bunch of variables before executing the submake
 tools/: FORCE
 	$(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(O) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(shell cd $(objtree) && /bin/pwd) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/
 
 tools/%: FORCE
 	$(Q)mkdir -p $(objtree)/tools
-	$(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(O) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/ $*
+	$(Q)$(MAKE) LDFLAGS= MAKEFLAGS="$(filter --j% -j,$(MAKEFLAGS))" O=$(shell cd $(objtree) && /bin/pwd) subdir=tools -C $(src)/tools/ $*
 
 # Single targets
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/tools-support-relative-directory-path-for-o.patch