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

Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-15T14:38:19Z

On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 15:18 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:06:34AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > That was the case in the past, but IIRC PeterZ advocated not to and I
> > agreed.
>
> Maybe you guys need to explain yourselves :) I mean, the dir is not
> present so we're not overwriting anything. And since we say "O=..." on
> the command line, it is actually expected that we really mean it... why
> type it, otherwise?

Because you're an idiot and made a typo ;-) Happens to me all the time.

The regular kernel build doesn't create non-existent O= targets either
iirc.