From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> commit be40920fbf1003c38ccdc02b571e01a75d890c82 upstream. When I tried to compile tools/perf from the top directory with the -C option, the O= option didn't work correctly if I passed a relative path: $ make O=BUILD -C tools/perf/ make: Entering directory '/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf' BUILD: Doing 'make -j8' parallel build ../scripts/Makefile.include:4: *** O=/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf/BUILD does not exist. Stop. make: *** [Makefile:70: all] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/tools/perf' The O= directory existence check failed because the check script ran in the build target directory instead of the directory where I ran the make command. To fix that, once change directory to $(PWD) and check O= directory, since the PWD is set to where the make command runs. Fixes: c883122acc0d ("perf tools: Let O= makes handle relative paths") Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/158351957799.3363.15269768530697526765.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/Makefile | 2 +- tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/Makefile +++ b/tools/perf/Makefile @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ endif # Only pass canonical directory names as the output directory: # ifneq ($(O),) - FULL_O := $(shell readlink -f $(O) || echo $(O)) + FULL_O := $(shell cd $(PWD); readlink -f $(O) || echo $(O)) endif # --- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include +++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 ifneq ($(O),) ifeq ($(origin O), command line) - dummy := $(if $(shell test -d $(O) || echo $(O)),$(error O=$(O) does not exist),) - ABSOLUTE_O := $(shell cd $(O) ; pwd) + dummy := $(if $(shell cd $(PWD); test -d $(O) || echo $(O)),$(error O=$(O) does not exist),) + ABSOLUTE_O := $(shell cd $(PWD); cd $(O) ; pwd) OUTPUT := $(ABSOLUTE_O)/$(if $(subdir),$(subdir)/) COMMAND_O := O=$(ABSOLUTE_O) ifeq ($(objtree),)