kbuild: revert $(realpath ...) to $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd)

I thought commit 8e9b46679923 ("kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of
$(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd)") was a safe conversion, but it changed
the behavior.

$(abspath ...) / $(realpath ...) does not expand shell special
characters, such as '~'.

Here is a simple Makefile example:

  ---------------->8----------------
  $(info /bin/pwd: $(shell cd ~/; /bin/pwd))
  $(info abspath: $(abspath ~/))
  $(info realpath: $(realpath ~/))
  all:
          @:
  ---------------->8----------------

  $ make
  /bin/pwd: /home/masahiro
  abspath: /home/masahiro/workspace/~
  realpath:

This can be a real problem if 'make O=~/foo' is invoked from another
Makefile or primitive shell like dash.

This commit partially reverts 8e9b46679923.

Fixes: 8e9b46679923 ("kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd)")
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile b/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile
index 4c5a481a850c..d6e1c02ddcfe 100644
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/Makefile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ endif
 
 ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
 # check that the output directory actually exists
-OUTDIR := $(realpath $(OUTPUT))
+OUTDIR := $(shell cd $(OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
 $(if $(OUTDIR),, $(error output directory "$(OUTPUT)" does not exist))
 endif
 
diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
index 9dc8f078a83c..1e8b6116ba3c 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
+++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ifneq ($(O),)
 ifeq ($(origin O), command line)
-        ABSOLUTE_O := $(realpath $(O))
-        dummy := $(if $(ABSOLUTE_O),,$(error O=$(O) does not exist))
+        dummy := $(if $(shell test -d $(O) || echo $(O)),$(error O=$(O) does not exist),)
+        ABSOLUTE_O := $(shell cd $(O) ; pwd)
         OUTPUT := $(ABSOLUTE_O)/$(if $(subdir),$(subdir)/)
         COMMAND_O := O=$(ABSOLUTE_O)
 ifeq ($(objtree),)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ endif
 
 # check that the output directory actually exists
 ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
-OUTDIR := $(realpath $(OUTPUT))
+OUTDIR := $(shell cd $(OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
 $(if $(OUTDIR),, $(error output directory "$(OUTPUT)" does not exist))
 endif