On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 11:16:50PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> When Kbuild starts building in a separate output directory, it generates
> a wrapper Makefile, allowing you to invoke 'make' from the output
> directory.
>
> This commit makes it more convenient, so you can invoke 'make' without
> M= or MO=.
>
> First, you need to build external modules in a separate directory:
>
> $ make M=/path/to/module/source/dir MO=/path/to/module/build/dir
>
> Once the wrapper Makefile is generated in /path/to/module/build/dir,
> you can proceed as follows:
>
> $ cd /path/to/module/build/dir
> $ make
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Makefile | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 9f0ba07e8f25..81603a50c757 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -641,10 +641,20 @@ ifdef building_out_of_srctree
> # At the same time when output Makefile generated, generate .gitignore to
> # ignore whole output directory
>
> +ifdef KBUILD_EXTMOD
> +print_env_for_makefile = \
> + echo "export KBUILD_OUTPUT = $(objtree)"; \
> + echo "export KBUILD_EXTMOD = $(_vpath)" ; \
> + echo "export KBUILD_EXTMOD_OUTPUT = $(CURDIR)"
> +else
> +print_env_for_makefile = \
> + echo "export KBUILD_OUTPUT = $(CURDIR)"
> +endif
> +
> quiet_cmd_makefile = GEN Makefile
> cmd_makefile = { \
> echo "\# Automatically generated by $(abs_srctree)/Makefile: don't edit"; \
> - echo "export KBUILD_OUTPUT = $(CURDIR)"; \
> + $(print_env_for_makefile); \
> echo "include $(abs_srctree)/Makefile"; \
> } > Makefile
>
> --
> 2.43.0
Nice idea, thanks!
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>
