When cross building kselftest out-of-tree the following issue can be seen: [...] make[4]: Entering directory '/src/kernel/linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/lib' CC csum /usr/lib/gcc-cross/aarch64-linux-gnu/13/../../../../aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot open output file /tmp/build/kselftest/net/lib/csum: No such file or directory collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status [...] Create the output build directory before building the targets, solves this issue with building 'net/lib/csum'. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile index b38199965f99..05c143bcff6a 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ ifdef INSTALL_PATH @ret=1; \ for TARGET in $(TARGETS) $(INSTALL_DEP_TARGETS); do \ BUILD_TARGET=$$BUILD/$$TARGET; \ + mkdir -p $$BUILD_TARGET; \ $(MAKE) OUTPUT=$$BUILD_TARGET -C $$TARGET install \ INSTALL_PATH=$(INSTALL_PATH)/$$TARGET \ SRC_PATH=$(shell readlink -e $$(pwd)) \ -- 2.45.2
