On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 9:52 PM Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When trying to build the compile_commands.json target from an external > module's directory, the following error is displayed: > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py', > needed by 'compile_commands.json'. Stop. Good catch. But, to reproduce this, O= option is also needed, right? e.g. $ make O=path/to/build/dir M=path/to/external/module/dir > This appears to be because gen_compile_commands.py is looked up using > relative path, which doesn't exist from the module's source tree. The phrase "appears to be ..." is somewhat modest. You can reword this to pin-point the first bad commit. For example: gen_compile_commands.py was previously looked up using a relative path to $(srctree), but commit b1992c3772e6 ("kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory") stopped defining VPATH for external module builds. > Prefixing the dependency with $(srctree) fixes the problem. This needs back-porting. Please add this: Fixes: b1992c3772e6 ("kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory") Thanks. > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Makefile | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 8ad55d6e7b60..52d7dfe4212a 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -1980,7 +1980,7 @@ nsdeps: modules > quiet_cmd_gen_compile_commands = GEN $@ > cmd_gen_compile_commands = $(PYTHON3) $< -a $(AR) -o $@ $(filter-out $<, $(real-prereqs)) > > -$(extmod_prefix)compile_commands.json: scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py \ > +$(extmod_prefix)compile_commands.json: $(srctree)/scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py \ > $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),, vmlinux.a $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS)) \ > $(if $(CONFIG_MODULES), $(MODORDER)) FORCE > $(call if_changed,gen_compile_commands) > -- > 2.46.0 > -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada