Hello! On 02/21/2018 04:09 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> When simply running `make' from the selftests top dir, this >> error shows up: >> >> cc -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -Wall -I../../../../usr/include/ -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/uuid gpio-mockup-chardev.c ../../../gpio/gpio-utils.o -lmount -o gpio-mockup-chardev >> cc: error: ../../../gpio/gpio-utils.o: No such file or directory >> <builtin>: recipe for target 'gpio-mockup-chardev' failed >> make[1]: *** [gpio-mockup-chardev] Error 1 >> >> because the output directory is set to "selftests/gpio" and >> all binaries built from ../../../gpio/ end up there. In fact, >> they appear as, exempli gratia: >> * gpiogpio-event-mon >> * gpiogpio-hammer >> * gpioinclude/ >> * gpiolsgpio >> which is wrong, as it's missing directory separator somewhere. >> >> This patch sets straight the output directory when building >> ../../../gpio/ so that binaries don't cross paths. > > This patch doesn't sound right like previous one. > Does selftest infrastructure have it's own build system like tools? Yes. See linux/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst § "Contributing new tests (details)" or linux/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk itself, which starts saying: # This mimics the top-level Makefile. We do it explicitly here so that this # Makefile can operate with or without the kbuild infrastructure. > Does it use tools' one? No, as far as I can tell. If anything, it uses it only to build inside tools/gpio/ whatever is needed. > What's wrong with the current approach? When building from the tools/testing/selftests/ directory, binaries end up in the current directory (and with an improper name), which is undesirable. The gpio/ selftest fails to build when make'ing from there. This is with current master: /linux/tools/testing/selftests$ make make[1]: Entering directory '/linux/tools/testing/selftests/gpio' [...] gcc -O2 -g -std=gnu99 -Wall -I../../../../usr/include/ gpio-mockup-chardev.c ../../../gpio/gpio-utils.o ../../../../usr/include/linux/gpio.h -lmount -I/usr/include/libmount -o gpio-mockup-chardev gcc: error: ../../../gpio/gpio-utils.o: No such file or directory <builtin>: recipe for target 'gpio-mockup-chardev' failed make[1]: *** [gpio-mockup-chardev] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/linux/tools/testing/selftests/gpio' Makefile:32: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 > Why do you need tools in selftests? I'll leave that to the test author to answer, as this is only a fix in the Makefile, but the only part of tools needed here is tools/gpio/*, for make'ing the object files this test will be built against. Thanks and greetings! Daniel Díaz daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html