Re: [PATCH] perf: Let O= makes handle relative paths

Borislav Petkov
2012-08-13T14:29:17Z

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:23:02AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 15:24 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > So wouldn't it make sense to call this ABSOLUTE_O or so then?
>
> That's just because you're russian, and are promoting Vodka! ;-)
>
>
> Done...
>
> ----------
>
> When I did a compile of perf using a relative path for the output
> directory, the build failed when it tried to compile libtraceevent. This
> is because it continues to use the same relative path when the new
> working directory is in a different path.
>
> SUBDIR ../lib/traceevent/
> /bin/sh: line 0: cd: ../../../nobackup/perf/: No such file or directory
> Makefile:74: *** output directory "../../../nobackup/perf/" does not exist. Stop.
> make: *** [../../../nobackup/perf///libtraceevent.a] Error 2
>
>
> Make the path used an absolute path when building perf with O=.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Acked-by: The Russian Vodka Promoter.

8-).

Thanks and Na Zdorovia!

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