If you try out-of-tree build with an unclean source tree, Kbuild
suggests to run make mrproper. The path to the source tree may be
shown with a relative path, for example, "make O=foo" emits the
following:
.. is not clean, please run 'make mrproper'
in the '..' directory.
This is somewhat confusing if you ran "make O=foo" in the source tree.
Using the absolute path will be clearer.
This commit changes the error message like follows:
***
*** The source tree is not clean, please run 'make mrproper'
*** in /absolute/path/to/linux
***
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com>
---
Makefile | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d9cbbc27d4ba..901fcb8fffbe 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1121,8 +1121,10 @@ ifdef building_out_of_srctree
$(Q)if [ -f $(srctree)/.config -o \
-d $(srctree)/include/config -o \
-d $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/generated ]; then \
- echo >&2 " $(srctree) is not clean, please run 'make$(if
$(findstring command line, $(origin ARCH)), ARCH=$(ARCH)) mrproper'"; \
- echo >&2 " in the '$(srctree)' directory.";\
+ echo >&2 "***"; \
+ echo >&2 "*** The source tree is not clean, please run
'make$(if $(findstring command line, $(origin ARCH)), ARCH=$(ARCH)) mrproper'";
\
+ echo >&2 "*** in $(abs_srctree)";\
+ echo >&2 "***"; \
/bin/false; \
fi;
endif
--
2.17.1
