From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 716141A06C9 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:27:19 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6FB91402BF for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:27:18 +1100 (AEDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building with O= To: Michael Ellerman References: <1444889150-23609-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Olof Johannsson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, yann.morin.1998@free.fr From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <561F5552.4070902@suse.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:27:14 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1444889150-23609-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dne 15.10.2015 v 08:05 Michael Ellerman napsal(a): > My recent commit d2036f30cfe1 ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow > KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target"), contained a bug in that when it > checks if KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is a file it forgets to prepend $(srctree) to > the path. > > This causes the build to fail when building out of tree (with O=), and > when the value of KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is 'defconfig'. In that case we will > fail to find the 'defconfig' file, because we look in the build > directory not $(srctree), and so we will call Make again with > 'defconfig' as the target. From there we loop infinitely calling 'make > defconfig' again and again. > > The fix is simple, we need to look for the file under $(srctree). > > Fixes: d2036f30cfe1 ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target") > Reported-by: Olof Johansson > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Acked-by: Michal Marek I could have spotted it myself :-/. Michal