Re: [PATCH 6/7] kbuild: make source and include paths absolute

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:17:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:44:56 +0200 Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Change all source and include paths to absolute form when
> > CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE is enabled.
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> >   gcc -Idir1 -c a.c -o a.o
> > 
> > will become
> > 
> >   gcc -I/path/to/dir1 -c /path/to/a.c -o a.o
> > 
> > Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure: when compiling with
> > option -fprofile-arcs, gcc stores file names inside object files.
> > Relative paths prevent the gcov tool from finding corresponding source
> > files.
> 
> I don't like this.  It converts the compiler error messages from
> relative paths to absolute paths which is rather obnoxious when
> all kernel developent is (or should be) base-directory-agnostic.

The compiler error messages are already absolute paths when using O=
(see e.g. all error messages sent by me in recent years).

cu
Adrian

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