[PATCH] scripts/Makefile.autoconf: use abs_srctree for out-of-tree symlink

[Sean Anderson]

On 1/5/26 15:35, David Lechner wrote:
> Replace usage of $(srctree) with $(abs_srctree) when creating a symlink
> to include/asm/arch in out of tree builds.
> 
> When building_out_of_srctree is true, $(srctree) is just "..", so the
> created symlink was broken, for example:
> 
>     build-mt8365_evk/include/asm/arch -> ../arch/arm/include/asm/arch-mediatek
> 
> Which would resolve to a non-existent path:
> 
>     build-mt8365_evk/include/asm/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-mediatek
> 
> To fix, we need to use the absolute path to the source tree since we
> don't know where the build tree is located relative to the source tree.
> 
> Fixes: bd3f9ee679b4 ("kbuild: Bump the build system to 6.1")
> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner at baylibre.com>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.autoconf | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.autoconf b/scripts/Makefile.autoconf
> index e3c88badb52..47c49a018bf 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.autoconf
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.autoconf
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ ifdef building_out_of_srctree
>  	else									\
>  		dest=arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/arch-$(if $(SOC),$(SOC),$(CPU));	\
>  	fi;									\
> -	ln -fsn $(srctree)/$$dest include/asm/arch
> +	ln -fsn $(abs_srctree)/$$dest include/asm/arch
>  else
>  	$(Q)if [ -d arch/$(ARCH)/mach-$(SOC)/include/mach ]; then	\
>  		dest=../../mach-$(SOC)/include/mach;			\
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 6cdd7597a2fbfc1572c1b0af23d3daf1cefa2de7
> change-id: 20260105-mtk-fix-build-after-kconfig-change-922538479a96
> 
> Best regards,

Tested-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at linux.dev>