Kbuild changes the working directory until it matches $(abs_objtree). When $(need-sub-make) is empty, $(abs_objtree) is the same as $(CURDIR). Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@xxxxxx> --- (no changes since v1) Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8dceb6830486..891d28e54791 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -228,12 +228,12 @@ else # need-sub-make # We process the rest of the Makefile if this is the final invocation of make -ifeq ($(abs_srctree),$(abs_objtree)) +ifeq ($(abs_srctree),$(CURDIR)) # building in the source tree srctree := . building_out_of_srctree := else - ifeq ($(abs_srctree)/,$(dir $(abs_objtree))) + ifeq ($(abs_srctree)/,$(dir $(CURDIR))) # building in a subdirectory of the source tree srctree := .. else -- 2.43.0