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> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - use $(srcroot) instead of $(_vpath) Makefile | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 35e34cce4942..df002595341a 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -642,10 +642,20 @@ 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 = $(realpath $(srcroot))" ; \ + 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