Re: [Xen-devel] xen-unstable: build fails

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/03/2011 10:48, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> As short time measure this seems to be okay.
>> 
>> On the long run I'd prefer to use absolute paths only. Otherwise you've
>> always a risk to use something from outside the intended build environment.
>> 
>> XEN_ROOT = $(abspath ../..)
>> 
>> seems not too hard to use instead of
>> 
>> XEN_ROOT = ../..
> 
> Except that make 3.80 doesn't support this, and that make version
> is - to my knowledge - still in quite wide spread use. But that can
> probably be overcome with a fallback implementation (which newer
> make just wouldn't use).

It has CURDIR, so we can just use that. Which is what I've done. It's also
cleaned up some not-nice bit of build-fu which were prefixing a relative
XEN_ROOT with arbitrary extra ../'s to "make things work".

 -- Keir



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