On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 2:51 PM Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 10:47 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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 > > I am building the module as follows: > > $ make -C ../linux/build M=$PWD modules compile_commands.json OK, this is equivalent to the command I gave. You are building your external module against the kernel built in a separate output directory. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
