On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:53:22PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:45 AM Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > gen_compile_command.py currently assumes that the .cmd files and the > > source code live in the same directory, which is not the case when > > a separate KBUILD_OUTPUT directory is used. > > Great point; android builds the kernel outside of the source dir > (`make O=/non-source/path ...`). Thanks for the patch! BTW if CrOS is > doing cool stuff with compile_commands.json; I'd like to know! > Particularly; I'm curious if it's possible to generate Ninja build > files from compile_commands.json; I do miss Doug's Kbuild caching > patches' speedup. > Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
At this point Chrome OS doesn't do anything with compile_commands.json for the kernel. I was just toying around a bit after a presentation from Tom Hughes about IDE integration and encountered this limitation.

