When add a obj with dir to obj-y, like this obj-y += dir/file.o The $(obj)/dir not created, this patch fix this. When try to add a file(which in a subdir) to my board's obj-y, the build progress crashed. For example, I use at91rm9200ek board, and in kernel dir run: mkdir objtree make O=objtree at91rm9200_defconfig mkdir arch/arm/mach-at91/dir touch arch/arm/mach-at91/dir/file.c and edit arch/arm/mach-at91/dir/file.c to add some code. then edit arch/arm/mach-at91/Makefile, change the following line: obj-$(CONFIG_MACH_AT91RM9200EK) += board-rm9200ek.o to: obj-$(CONFIG_MACH_AT91RM9200EK) += board-rm9200ek.o dir/file.o Now build it: make O=objtree Then the error appears: ... CC arch/arm/mach-at91/board-rm9200dk.o CC arch/arm/mach-at91/board-rm9200ek.o CC arch/arm/mach-at91/dir/file.o linux-2.6/arch/arm/mach-at91/dir/file.c:5: fatal error: opening dependency file arch/arm/mach-at91/dir/.file.o.d: No such file or directory Check the objtree: LANG=en ls objtree/arch/arm/mach-at91/dir ls: cannot access objtree/arch/arm/mach-at91/dir: No such file or directory It's apparently that the target dir not created for file.o Check kbuild source code. It seems that kbuild create dirs for that in $(obj-dirs). But if the dir need not to create a built-in.o, It should never in $(obj-dirs). So I make this patch to make sure It in $(obj-dirs) this bug caused by commit f5fb976520a53f45f8bbf2e851f16b3b5558d485 --- scripts/Makefile.lib | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib index 51bb3de..cddd2c9 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ multi-objs := $(multi-objs-y) $(multi-objs-m) subdir-obj-y := $(filter %/built-in.o, $(obj-y)) # $(obj-dirs) is a list of directories that contain object files -obj-dirs := $(dir $(multi-objs) $(subdir-obj-y)) +obj-dirs := $(dir $(multi-objs) $(obj-y)) # Replace multi-part objects by their individual parts, look at local dir only real-objs-y := $(foreach m, $(filter-out $(subdir-obj-y), $(obj-y)), $(if $(strip $($(m:.o=-objs)) $($(m:.o=-y))),$($(m:.o=-objs)) $($(m:.o=-y)),$(m))) $(extra-y) -- 1.7.9.5 -- 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