kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build

Kbuild supports saving output files in a separate directory.
But the build directory must be created beforehand. For example,

  $ mkdir -p dir/to/store/output/files
  $ make O=dir/to/store/output/files defconfig

Creating a build directory automatically would be useful.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cea64d277457..faf55c96ba59 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -120,9 +120,10 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)
 # Invoke a second make in the output directory, passing relevant variables
 # check that the output directory actually exists
 saved-output := $(KBUILD_OUTPUT)
-KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
+KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell mkdir -p $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) \
+                                                                && /bin/pwd)
 $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),, \
-     $(error output directory "$(saved-output)" does not exist))
+     $(error failed to create output directory "$(saved-output)"))
 
 PHONY += $(MAKECMDGOALS) sub-make