Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] kbuild: let addtree result in absolute paths only

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:24:16PM +0200, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
> ---
>  scripts/Kbuild.include |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rc1/scripts/Kbuild.include
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rc1.orig/scripts/Kbuild.include
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc1/scripts/Kbuild.include
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ ld-option = $(call try-run,\
>  build := -f $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),$(srctree)/)scripts/Makefile.build obj
>  
>  # Prefix -I with $(srctree) if it is not an absolute path.
> -addtree = $(if $(filter-out -I/%,$(1)),$(patsubst -I%,-I$(srctree)/%,$(1))) $(1)
> +addtree = $(if $(filter-out -I/%,$(1)),$(patsubst -I%,-I$(srctree)/%,$(1)),$(1))
>  
>  # Find all -I options and call addtree
>  flags = $(foreach o,$($(1)),$(if $(filter -I%,$(o)),$(call addtree,$(o)),$(o)))

We try to make all paths relative so less files get rebuild if you access the
same source from two different paths (think nfs mounted src etc).
So you really need to justify this change.

	Sam