From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754675AbbJOH1S (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:27:18 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37389 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753528AbbJOH1Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:27:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building with O= To: Michael Ellerman References: <1444889150-23609-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Olof Johannsson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, yann.morin.1998@free.fr From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <561F5552.4070902@suse.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:27:14 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1444889150-23609-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dne 15.10.2015 v 08:05 Michael Ellerman napsal(a): > My recent commit d2036f30cfe1 ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow > KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target"), contained a bug in that when it > checks if KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is a file it forgets to prepend $(srctree) to > the path. > > This causes the build to fail when building out of tree (with O=), and > when the value of KBUILD_DEFCONFIG is 'defconfig'. In that case we will > fail to find the 'defconfig' file, because we look in the build > directory not $(srctree), and so we will call Make again with > 'defconfig' as the target. From there we loop infinitely calling 'make > defconfig' again and again. > > The fix is simple, we need to look for the file under $(srctree). > > Fixes: d2036f30cfe1 ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target") > Reported-by: Olof Johansson > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Acked-by: Michal Marek I could have spotted it myself :-/. Michal