On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:30:45PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: SNIP > > I expected this kind of mess > when I saw 33a57ce0a54d498275f432db04850001175dfdfa > > > The tools/ directory is a completely different world > governed by a different build system > (no, not a build system, but a collection of adhoc makefile code) > > > All the other programs used during the kernel build > are located under scripts/, and can be built with > a simple syntax, and cleaned up correctly. > It is simple, clean and robust. > > objtool is the first alien that opt out Kbuild, > and this is the second one. > > > It is scary to mix up two different things, > which run in different working directories. would you see any way out? apart from changing resolve_btfids to use Kbuild.. there are some dependencies we'd need to change as well and they are used by other tools.. probably it'd end up with all or nothing scenario > > See, this is wired up in the top Makefile > in an ugly way, and you are struggling > in suppressing issues, where you can never > do it in the right way. maybe we could move it out of top makefile into separate one, that would handle all the related mess jirka
