Re: [PATCH 4/5] selftests/nolibc: support out-of-tree builds

Willy Tarreau
2023-10-22T09:31:34Z

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:33:59PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Out of tree builds are much more convenient when building for multiple
> architectures or configurations in parallel.
>
> Only absolute O= parameters are supported as Makefile.include will
> always resolve relative paths in relation to $(srctree) instead of the
> current directory.
>
> Add a call to "make outputmakefile" to verify that the sourcetree is
> clean.

At first this worried me, I thought you meant clean in the git meaning,
but it's clean as in "make clean" from what I'm seeing. Yeah that sounds
reasonable.

> This is based on Zhangjins out-of-tree patch.
> It extends that work for get_init_cpio support and also drops relative
> O= specifications explicitly.

Yeah I remember these discussions about these shortcomings, that's
pretty reasonable.

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/06d96bd81fe812a9718098a383678ad3beba98b1.1691215074.git.falcon@tinylab.org/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
(...)

I think you should add a Suggested-by at least since Zhangjin attempted
that work quite a few times already and allowed to make progress in that
direction (maybe even co-developed, I'm not sure).

Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Willy