Re: [PATCH] kbuild: normalize paths in quiet compile output

Hi Yang,

On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 03:00:39PM +0800, Yang Wang wrote:
> Composite objects may contain relative components in their member object
> paths. This can make quiet compile output include noisy dot-dot components,
> for example:
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../amdkfd/kfd_module.o
> 
> Use the existing normalize_path helper for quiet C and assembly compile
> output so the same target is printed as:
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_module.o
> 
> The actual compile commands still use $@, so object paths, dependency
> tracking and generated files are unchanged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Wang <[email protected]>

While I agree that the dots are ugly, I do not want to take this change
because it makes it harder to figure out how to build these .o files
individually. For example:

  $ make -kj"$(nproc)" ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux- mrproper allmodconfig drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../amdkfd/kfd_module.o
  ...
    CC [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../amdkfd/kfd_module.o

works for building this file individually but the normalized path
produced by this patch

  $ make -kj"$(nproc)" ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux- mrproper allmodconfig drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_module.o
  ...
    CC      drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_module.o
  In file included from drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_module.c:26:
  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h:46:10: fatal error: kgd_kfd_interface.h: No such file or directory
     46 | #include <kgd_kfd_interface.h>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  make[7]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:289: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_module.o] Error 1

does not.

> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.lib | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index 28a1c08e3b22..7d1589d993a8 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
>  cmd_ld_single = $(if $(objtool-enabled)$(is-single-obj-m), ; $(LD) $(ld_flags) -r -o $(tmp-target) $@; mv $(tmp-target) $@)
>  endif
>  
> -quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC $(quiet_modtag)  $@
> +quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC $(quiet_modtag)  $(call normalize_path,$@)
>        cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) -c -o $@ $< \
>  		$(cmd_ld_single) \
>  		$(cmd_objtool)
> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ define rule_cc_o_c
>  	$(call cmd,warn_shared_object)
>  endef
>  
> -quiet_cmd_as_o_S = AS $(quiet_modtag)  $@
> +quiet_cmd_as_o_S = AS $(quiet_modtag)  $(call normalize_path,$@)
>        cmd_as_o_S = $(CC) $(a_flags) -c -o $@ $< $(cmd_objtool)
>  
>  define rule_as_o_S
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 

-- 
Cheers,
Nathan