Re: [PATCH 50/52] tools/perf/build: Fix O=/some/dir perf.o type of targets

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Tue,  8 Oct 2013 12:11:20 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If someone specifies a single target, mixed with O=, the following way:
>
>     hubble:~/tip/tools/perf> make O=/tmp/perf util/stat.o
>     BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
>     gcc  -Wbad-function-cast -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k [...]
>
> The build might even fail, if a target depends on other targets:
>
>     hubble:~/tip/tools/perf> make O=/tmp/perf perf.o
>     ...
>     perf.c: In function ‘handle_options’:
>     perf.c:155:21: error: ‘PERF_HTML_PATH’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> The correct way to invoke such targets is:
>
>     hubble:~/tip/tools/perf> make O=/tmp/perf /tmp/perf/perf.o
>     BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
>     GEN /tmp/perf/common-cmds.h
>     CC /tmp/perf/perf.o
>
> But that's unnecessary typing and it's also easy to mistakenly build into the
> source directory.
>
> To fix this remove the generic suffix rules and add redirection to $(OUTPUT)
> for the most popular .o targets.

I got this:

  $ cd tools/perf
  $ make
  ... (succeeded)

  $ make O=~/build/perf perf.o
  make: `perf.o' is up to date.

  $ rm ~/build/perf/perf.o
  $ make O=~/build/perf/ perf.o
  make: `perf.o' is up to date.

> +#
> +# If a target does not match any of the later rules then prefix it by $(OUTPUT)
> +# This makes targets like 'make O=/tmp/perf perf.o' work in a natural way.
> +#
> +ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
> +%.o: $(OUTPUT)%.o
> +	@echo "    # Redirected target $@ => $(OUTPUT)$@"
> +util/%.o: $(OUTPUT)util/%.o
> +	@echo "    # Redirected target $@ => $(OUTPUT)util/$@"
> +bench/%.o: $(OUTPUT)bench/%.o
> +	@echo "    # Redirected target $@ => $(OUTPUT)bench/$@"
> +tests/%.o: $(OUTPUT)tests/%.o
> +	@echo "    # Redirected target $@ => $(OUTPUT)tests/$@"
> +endif

It also doesn't care about other directories - arch/, scripts/ and ui/ -
and their subdirectories.  So even on clean build it'll failed to build
these files with O=dir.

  $ make clean

  $ make O=~/build/perf ui/stdio/hist.o
      BUILD: Doing 'make -j12' parallel build
  make[1]: *** No rule to make target `ui/stdio/hist.o'.  Stop.
  make: *** [ui/stdio/hist.o] Error 2


Thanks,
Namhyung