Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752161AbcDROq7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:46:59 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37233 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751486AbcDROq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:46:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: Use builtin $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && pwd) To: Thierry Reding References: <1460106959-6684-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Marek Message-ID: <5714F35D.5050603@suse.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:46:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1460106959-6684-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 305 Lines: 10 On 2016-04-08 11:15, Thierry Reding wrote: > From: Thierry Reding > > Avoid forking off a shell to resolve the absolute path of the output > directory when make's builtin $(abspath ...) function will do an > adequate job. The abspath function is not available in make 3.80. Michal