From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx> building with $srctree != $objtree, perf-tar-* targets fail to read the MANIFEST file and add the PERF-VERSION-FILE needed by out-of-tree builds. The build errors and an incorrect tar is created: $ make O=build-x86 perf-targz-src-pkg TAR cat: ../tools/perf/MANIFEST: No such file or directory tar: perf-4.1.0-rc8/PERF-VERSION-FILE: Cannot stat: No such file or dir.. tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Kbuild sets objtree to "." and srctree to ".." The command to output MANIFEST becomes: $(cd ..; echo $(cat ../tools/perf/MANIFEST)) Without MANIFEST, the entire kernel source tree is added to the perf source tarball. The *correct* fix is to keep the cd and remove srctree from cat command line since MANIFEST has wildcards that fail to expand working directory isn't srctree. Second, PERF-VERSION-FILE gets not added, because in-tree build path is hardcoded to Makefile: util/PERF-VERSION-GEN ../../$(perf-tar)/ 2>/dev/null) The PERF-VERSION-GEN needs to be run from tools/perf directory, and the output directory needs to be changed from relative to to absolute. This can be achieved using the $(CURDIR) variable. Also remove the error redirect to /dev/null which hid the error. Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v3: use $(CURDIR) v2: switch from easy fix to correct fix scripts/package/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile index 562aa15..f127f7e 100644 --- a/scripts/package/Makefile +++ b/scripts/package/Makefile @@ -117,12 +117,12 @@ quiet_cmd_perf_tar = TAR cmd_perf_tar = \ git --git-dir=$(srctree)/.git archive --prefix=$(perf-tar)/ \ HEAD^{tree} $$(cd $(srctree); \ - echo $$(cat $(srctree)/tools/perf/MANIFEST)) \ + echo $$(cat tools/perf/MANIFEST)) \ -o $(perf-tar).tar; \ mkdir -p $(perf-tar); \ git --git-dir=$(srctree)/.git rev-parse HEAD > $(perf-tar)/HEAD; \ (cd $(srctree)/tools/perf; \ -util/PERF-VERSION-GEN ../../$(perf-tar)/ 2>/dev/null); \ +util/PERF-VERSION-GEN $(CURDIR)/$(perf-tar)/); \ tar rf $(perf-tar).tar $(perf-tar)/HEAD $(perf-tar)/PERF-VERSION-FILE; \ rm -r $(perf-tar); \ $(if $(findstring tar-src,$@),, \ -- 2.4.6 -- 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