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Commit 1a475d54 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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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: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
parent 621da4ba
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