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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ltp-coverage@lists.sourceforge.net, oberparleiter@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] kbuild: make source and include paths absolute
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 21:52:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080523195222.GA366@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0805231242r32892322n6c0a25e06d93ff96@mail.gmail.com>

> >>
> >> Well I guess that's understandable with O=.
> >>
> >> But I find it rather nasty.  (I guess it'd be less nasty if I were to
> >> get off my butt and work out how to teach rxvt that "/" is a word
> >> separator).
> >>
> >> What do others think?
> >
> > That the gcov tool has a bug if it insist on using absolute paths.
> > And thus we should fix gcov and not workaround it in the kernel.
> 
> IIRC, there was also the slight problem that all uses of __FILE__
> (there are quite a few in the kernel) will also now be absolute and
> increase the size of the vmlinux image by quite a bit.
> 
> Yeah... http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/25/40
This is specific to O=.. build kernels.
I recall this is not an issue for the gcov patchset (if O=... is not used).
But I have not checked it.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-19  8:44 [PATCH 6/7] kbuild: make source and include paths absolute Peter Oberparleiter
2008-05-19 13:45 ` Jan Blunck
2008-05-23  3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23 17:18   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-23 18:17     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23 19:09       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-23 19:42         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-23 19:52           ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-05-27  9:16         ` Peter Oberparleiter

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