[PATCH] scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building with O=

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Oct 15 20:38:05 AEDT 2015


On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 09:27 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> 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 <olof at lixom.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.com>
> 
> I could have spotted it myself :-/.

It was pretty easy to miss in the diff, especially as the kconfig invocation
doesn't use $(srctree).

I should have noticed it in my testing, but it didn't actually break powerpc,
so the only clue was that the message says "based on target". Anyway fixed now
hopefully.

cheers




More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list