Makefile: internally use absolute paths to BR2_EXTERNAL

Using a relative path for BR2_EXTERNAL, and using an external defconfig,
such as in (from a Buildroot top-dir):
    make O=.. BR2_EXTERNAL=.. foo_defconfig

is broken. It is unclear why the %_defconfig rule recurses in that case.

This patch internaly makes BR2_EXTERNAL canonical (ie. makes it an absolute
path), and checks the directory exists.

[Peter: s/relatively/relative/ as suggested by Thomas]
Reported-by: Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen@openwide.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 98d32c046c050f1a30d54be3fd908469d36c1db0..502991f6589bb6cace773c8073d8c4e60796a11b 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_EXTERNAL),)
   override BR2_EXTERNAL = support/dummy-external
   $(shell rm -f $(BR2_EXTERNAL_FILE))
 else
+  _BR2_EXTERNAL = $(shell cd $(BR2_EXTERNAL) >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd)
+  ifeq ($(_BR2_EXTERNAL),)
+    $(error BR2_EXTERNAL='$(BR2_EXTERNAL)' does not exist, relative to $(TOPDIR))
+  endif
+  override BR2_EXTERNAL := $(_BR2_EXTERNAL)
   $(shell echo BR2_EXTERNAL ?= $(BR2_EXTERNAL) > $(BR2_EXTERNAL_FILE))
 endif