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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	bp@alien8.de, geert@linux-m68k.org, jolsa@redhat.com,
	masahiroy@kernel.org, michal.lkml@markovi.net,
	peterz@infradead.org, rdunlap@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:39:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200330153947.GG4189@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1585570296177156@kroah.com>

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:11:36PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
>The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
>If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
>tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
>id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>
>------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
>From be40920fbf1003c38ccdc02b571e01a75d890c82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 03:32:58 +0900
>Subject: [PATCH] tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option
>
>When I tried to compile tools/perf from the top directory with the -C
>option, the O= option didn't work correctly if I passed a relative path:
>
>  $ make O=BUILD -C tools/perf/
>  make: Entering directory '/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf'
>    BUILD:   Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
>  ../scripts/Makefile.include:4: *** O=/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf/BUILD does not exist.  Stop.
>  make: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2
>  make: Leaving directory '/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf'
>
>The O= directory existence check failed because the check script ran in
>the build target directory instead of the directory where I ran the make
>command.
>
>To fix that, once change directory to $(PWD) and check O= directory,
>since the PWD is set to where the make command runs.
>
>Fixes: c883122acc0d ("perf tools: Let O= makes handle relative paths")
>Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
>Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
>Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
>Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
>Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
>Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/158351957799.3363.15269768530697526765.stgit@devnote2
>Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Context conflicts with license changes... Fixed and queued up.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-30 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-30 12:11 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tools: Let O= makes handle a relative path with -C option" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree gregkh
2020-03-30 15:39 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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