We do not support out-of-tree building of rpm-pkg / deb-pkg. If O= is given, the build should be terminated, but the "false" command is not effective because it is not the last command in the cmd_src_tar. Then, rpm-pkg / deb-pkg tries to continue building, and fails for a different reason. Set -e option so that the "false" terminates the building immediately. I also put the error messages to stderr, and made it stand out more. For example, "make O=foo rpm-pkg" will fail as follows: /bin/bash ../scripts/package/mkspec >./kernel.spec TAR kernel-4.15.0_rc2+.tar.gz ERROR: Building source tarball is not possible outside the kernel source tree. Don't set KBUILD_OUTPUT, or use the binrpm-pkg or bindeb-pkg target instead. ../scripts/package/Makefile:53: recipe for target 'rpm-pkg' failed Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/package/Makefile | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile index 61e29da..9fbcf5e 100644 --- a/scripts/package/Makefile +++ b/scripts/package/Makefile @@ -32,10 +32,14 @@ MKSPEC := $(srctree)/scripts/package/mkspec quiet_cmd_src_tar = TAR $(2).tar.gz cmd_src_tar = \ +set -e; \ if test "$(objtree)" != "$(srctree)"; then \ - echo "Building source tarball is not possible outside the"; \ - echo "kernel source tree. Don't set KBUILD_OUTPUT, or use the"; \ - echo "binrpm-pkg or bindeb-pkg target instead."; \ + echo >&2; \ + echo >&2 " ERROR:"; \ + echo >&2 " Building source tarball is not possible outside the"; \ + echo >&2 " kernel source tree. Don't set KBUILD_OUTPUT, or use the"; \ + echo >&2 " binrpm-pkg or bindeb-pkg target instead."; \ + echo >&2; \ false; \ fi ; \ $(srctree)/scripts/setlocalversion --save-scmversion; \ -- 2.7.4 -- 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