On 14/10/2016 11:53, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > Why does it need to care about the build directory name at all? > > Ideally builds should be entirely deterministically reproducible > > whatever the path to the source or build directory names is... > > It's trying to construct the relative path from the source directory to > a trace-events file (inside the source directory). This is used so that > block/trace-event macros have BLOCK in their name while net/trace-events > have NET, etc.
But Stefan (Weil) is right, it's actually including the path to the build directory if you're building with objdir!=srcdir. It should not need that. Paolo
