Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] kbuild: convert include and source paths

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:24:26PM +0200, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
> 
> Modify kbuild to convert relative include and source paths to absolute
> form. Also change the module versioning mechanism to alter object file
> names only after compiling.
> 
> Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure: source paths are
> referenced by the compiled object files. Using relative paths or
> object file names which are different from the source name would
> prevent the gcov tool from finding the corresponding source files.

For the relative path issue do you really fix this at the right place?
I would say that teaching gcov tool from where to look would be better.

> Also change the module versioning mechanism to alter object file
> names only after compiling.
Can I get this as a separate patch please.
It may be general useful and makes sense to look at alone.

	Sam