Commit 1a475d54 authored Aug 22, 2019 by Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: clarify where to run make mrproper when out-of-tree fails



If you try out-of-tree build with an unclean source tree, Kbuild
suggests to run make mrproper. The path to the source tree may be
shown with a relative path, for example, "make O=foo" emits the
following:

  .. is not clean, please run 'make mrproper'
  in the '..' directory.

This is somewhat confusing if you ran "make O=foo" in the source tree.
Using the absolute path will be clearer.

This commit changes the error message like follows:

***
*** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make mrproper'
*** in /absolute/path/to/linux
***

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

parent 621da4ba

Makefile

+4 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1118,8 +1118,10 @@ ifdef building_out_of_srctree
		$(Q)if [ -f $(srctree)/.config -o \
		-d $(srctree)/include/config -o \
		-d $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/generated ]; then \
		echo >&2 " $(srctree) is not clean, please run 'make$(if $(findstring command line, $(origin ARCH)), ARCH=$(ARCH)) mrproper'"; \
		echo >&2 " in the '$(srctree)' directory.";\
		echo >&2 "***"; \
		echo >&2 "*** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make$(if $(findstring command line, $(origin ARCH)), ARCH=$(ARCH)) mrproper'"; \
		echo >&2 "*** in $(abs_srctree)";\
		echo >&2 "***"; \
		/bin/false; \
		fi;
		endif

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