Re: [PATCH] firmware: fix directory creation rule matching with make 3.82

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:14:36PM -0400, Mark Asselstine wrote:
> Attempting to run 'firmware_install' with CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_TI=y when
> using make 3.82 results in an error
> 
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/firmware/./', needed by
> `/lib/firmware/ti_3410.fw'.  Stop.
> 
> It turns out make 3.82 is picky when matching directory names with
> trailing slashes as a result, where make 3.81 would handle this
> correctly make 3.82 does not find the rule needed to create the
> directory.
> 
> The './' seen in the error is added by $(dir) for firmware which
> resides in the base firmware src directory, such as
> ti_3410.fw.ihex. By performing $(dir) after we prepend the
> $(INSTALL_FW_PATH) we can ensure we don't end up with a './' in the
> middle of the path and the directory will be properly created.
> 
> This change works with make 3.81 and should work with previous
> versions as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>

Thanks a lot and sorry for the delay. I applied the patch to
kbuild.git#rc-fixes.

Michal