Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 20:17:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] kbuild: make source and include paths absolute |
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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.
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