On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:27:37AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > WANG Cong wrote: > > TOPDIR is obsolete, use objtree instead. > > This patch removes TOPDIR from all fs/ Makefiles. > > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/Makefile b/fs/xfs/Makefile > > index 49e3e7e..d1d3d49 100644 > > --- a/fs/xfs/Makefile > > +++ b/fs/xfs/Makefile > > @@ -1 +1 @@ > > -include $(TOPDIR)/fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL) > > +include $(objtree)/fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL) > > FWIW $(TOPDIR) is already banished from the latest xfs build code: > Good - I will ignore the xfs bits. > http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-linux/Makefile > > and the patch is in -mm too via git: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/broken-out/git-xfs.patch You can do this simpler: +EXTRA_CFLAGS += -I$(src) -I$(src)/linux-2.6 -funsigned-char + +XFS_LINUX := linux-2.6 + +ifeq ($(CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG),y) + EXTRA_CFLAGS += -g +endif + like this: ccflags-y := -I$(src) -I$(src)/linux-2.6 -funsigned-char ccflags-$(CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG) += -g XFS_LINUX := linux-2.6 > p.s. what is $(objtree) exactly? I don't see it mentioned in > Documentation/kbuild except as one line in an example... I thought > $(obj) and $(src) should be used outside of the core kbuild > infrastructure, and in this case wouldn't it be $(src) anyway? $(objtree) specify the build directory and is only rarely used. Half of the current users are buggy and I should fix it one day. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html