Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2008 20:18:40 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] kbuild: make source and include paths absolute |
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:17:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:44:56 +0200 Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > > From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> > > > > Change all source and include paths to absolute form when > > CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE is enabled. > > > > Example: > > > > gcc -Idir1 -c a.c -o a.o > > > > will become > > > > gcc -I/path/to/dir1 -c /path/to/a.c -o a.o > > > > Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure: when compiling with > > option -fprofile-arcs, gcc stores file names inside object files. > > Relative paths prevent the gcov tool from finding corresponding source > > files. > > I don't like this. It converts the compiler error messages from > relative paths to absolute paths which is rather obnoxious when > all kernel developent is (or should be) base-directory-agnostic.
The compiler error messages are already absolute paths when using O= (see e.g. all error messages sent by me in recent years).
cu Adrian
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