Re: [PATCH 6/7] kbuild: make source and include paths absolute
From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 13:21:19 EST
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@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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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