On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:26:51 -0600 Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org wrote:
Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions. The current documentation is incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org
So I'll confess to being a little confused by this one...
Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst index c8c03388b9de..6c910ddaa9f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ Build and run from user specific object directory (make O=dir):: $ make O=/tmp/kselftest kselftest -Build and run KBUILD_OUTPUT directory (make KBUILD_OUTPUT=):: +Build and run from KBUILD_OUTPUT directory (make KBUILD_OUTPUT=)::
- $ make KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest kselftest
- $ export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kselftest; make kselftest
Is there a particular reason why this variable needs to be set in the environment rather than just in make? More importantly, though, I don't think this would work if you run it from the KBUILD_OUTPUT directory. What you're really doing is running with a separate output directory, right?
Thanks,
jon