[PATCH 49/50] tools/perf/build: Fix O=/some/dir perf.o type of targets

[Ingo Molnar]

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 [...]

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 âhandle_optionsâ:
    perf.c:155:21: error: âPERF_HTML_PATHâ 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.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mk0oiukmhgSbrll6chrPkkqr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile |  2 ++
 tools/perf/Makefile.perf          | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
index eaa477f..86a4ba8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+$(info Documentation/Makefile)
+
 include ../../scripts/Makefile.include
 include ../config/utilities.mak
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index cdf668a..534bff0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -576,7 +576,21 @@ $(OUTPUT)perf.o perf.spec \
 	: $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE
 
 .SUFFIXES:
-.SUFFIXES: .o .c .S .s
+
+#
+# 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
 
 # These two need to be here so that when O= is not used they take precedence
 # over the general rule for .o
-- 
1.7.11.7

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