Never mind - after some head scratching I realized my git remote reference had become obsolete since the last time I pulled it. This patch was against the obsolete (but still existing) git://git.openfabrics.org/~iraweiny/infiniband-diags.git not the current https://github.com/linux-rdma/infiniband-diags Thanks, Knut On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 12:48 +0200, Knut Omang wrote: > Configuring and building in a separate directory breaks > because gen_chlog.sh assumes it runs from the git tree. > Instead of making this assumption, rather assume the more > generic, that the gen_chlog.sh script itself is located > in the top sourcedir. > > With this fix configuring and building in a separate > tree from the source tree works. > > Signed-off-by: Knut Omang <knut.omang@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > gen_chlog.sh | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/gen_chlog.sh b/gen_chlog.sh > index 34dfa24..59a9e1f 100755 > --- a/gen_chlog.sh > +++ b/gen_chlog.sh > @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ if [ "$1" = "--spec" ] ; then > spec_format=1 > fi > > +cd `dirname $0` > + > GIT_DIR=`git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null` > > test -z "$GIT_DIR" && usage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html