kbuild: clarify where to run make mrproper when out-of-tree fails

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.masahiro@socionext.com>
This commit is contained in:
Masahiro Yamada 2019-08-22 13:46:10 +09:00
parent 621da4ba0e
commit 1a475d5486

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@ -1118,8 +1118,10 @@ 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