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From: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>
To: Thomas D <whissi@whissi.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/power: turbostat: Use $(CURDIR) instead of $(PWD) in Makefile
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On January 4, 2015 18:52:43 Thomas D wrote:
> Since commit ee0778a30153 ("tools/power: turbostat: make Makefile a bit
> more capable") turbostat’s Makefile is using
> 
>   [...]
>   BUILD_OUTPUT    := $(PWD)
>   [...]
> 
> which obviously causes trouble when building "turbostat" with
> 
>   make -C /usr/src/linux/tools/power/x86/turbostat ARCH=x86 turbostat
> 
> because GNU make doesn’t update nor guarantee that $PWD is set.
> 
> This patch changes the Makefile to use $CURDIR instead, which GNU make
> guarantees to set and update (i.e. when using "make –C ...").
> 
> Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533918
> Fixes: ee0778a30153 ("tools/power: turbostat: make Makefile a bit more
> capable") Signed-off-by: Thomas D. <whissi@whissi.de>
> Cc: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>

Looks fine. I am wondering if we should take this opportunity to respect "O=" 
as the kernel does. ie. default to CURDIR but using whatever is passed in via 
O= on the cmdline.

Mark

> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile
> b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile index d1b3a36..6dd4cad 100644
> --- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  CC		= $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
> -BUILD_OUTPUT	:= $(PWD)
> +BUILD_OUTPUT	:= $(CURDIR)
>  PREFIX		:= /usr
>  DESTDIR		:=
> 
> --
> 2.2.1