Re: [PATCH] selftests: Makefile: create OUTPUT dir

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 9/16/24 01:56, Anders Roxell wrote:
> When cross building kselftest out-of-tree the following issue can be
> seen:
> 
> [...]
> make[4]: Entering directory
> '/src/kernel/linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/lib'
>    CC       csum
> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/aarch64-linux-gnu/13/../../../../aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> cannot open output file /tmp/build/kselftest/net/lib/csum: No such
> file or directory
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> [...]
> 
> Create the output build directory before building the targets, solves
> this issue with building 'net/lib/csum'.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> index b38199965f99..05c143bcff6a 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
> @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ ifdef INSTALL_PATH
>   	@ret=1;	\
>   	for TARGET in $(TARGETS) $(INSTALL_DEP_TARGETS); do \
>   		BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET;	\
> +		mkdir -p $$BUILD_TARGET;	\
>   		$(MAKE) OUTPUT=$$BUILD_TARGET -C $$TARGET install \
>   				INSTALL_PATH=$(INSTALL_PATH)/$$TARGET \
>   				SRC_PATH=$(shell readlink -e $$(pwd)) \


Doesn't the "all" target mkdir work for this case? Why do we need another mkdir here?

thanks,
-- Shuah