Re: [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD_OUTPUT automatically

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 22.10.2011 17:12, Peter Foley wrote:
> This patch makes it possible to execute make O=work instead of
> mkdir work
> make O=work
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
> ---
>  Makefile |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 2652089..a4769ac 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
>  # Invoke a second make in the output directory, passing relevant variables
>  # check that the output directory actually exists
>  saved-output := $(KBUILD_OUTPUT)
> -KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
> +KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell mkdir -p $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
>  $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),, \
>       $(error output directory "$(saved-output)" does not exist))

I think it's a good idea, but please also change the comment and error
message. The command will now only fail if the directory cannot be
created, not if it does not exist.

Michal