Re: [PATCH] [RFC] initramfs: Prefix simple paths with $(srctree)

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On 11/15/2013 03:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> If CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE contains relative paths inside the source tree
> (e.g. in a defconfig pointing to arch-specific files), the corresponding
> file system entries are not found when building outside the source tree.
> 
> Prefix all simple paths (paths not starting with "/", "../", or "./") with
> $(srctree) to fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This issue happens when building an OpenRISC defconfig from
> git://openrisc.net/jonas/linux. Mainline doesn't have the OpenRISC
> initramfs.

+1.
This applies to ARC defconfig too.

> 
> Questions:
>   1. Is this an acceptable solution for mainline?
>   2. My make-foo is limited. is there a better way to accomplish this, than
>      by prefixing all paths and removing the prefixes again where they're
>      not wanted?
>    
>  usr/Makefile |    6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/usr/Makefile b/usr/Makefile
> index e767f019accf..2170c38936ce 100644
> --- a/usr/Makefile
> +++ b/usr/Makefile
> @@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ hostprogs-y := gen_init_cpio
>  initramfs   := $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
>  ramfs-input := $(if $(filter-out "",$(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE)), \
>  			$(shell echo $(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE)),-d)
> +ifneq ("$(ramfs-input)", "-d")
> +ramfs-input := $(patsubst %, $(srctree)/%, $(ramfs-input))
> +ramfs-input := $(patsubst $(srctree)//%, /%, $(ramfs-input))
> +ramfs-input := $(patsubst $(srctree)/../%, ../%, $(ramfs-input))
> +ramfs-input := $(patsubst $(srctree)/./%, ./%, $(ramfs-input))
> +endif
>  ramfs-args  := \
>          $(if $(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID), -u $(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID)) \
>          $(if $(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID), -g $(CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID))
> 

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