After the blamed commit, running a out-of-tree build for ynltool fails :

  # make -C tools/net/ynl/ynltool O=/tmp/o1
  make: Entering directory 'tools/net/ynl/ynltool'
  make: *** No rule to make target '/tmp/o1/json_writer.o', needed by '/tmp/o1/ynltool'.  Stop.

ynltool's Makefile correctly accounts for $(OUTPUT) to get the list of
object files to generate :

OBJS := $(patsubst %.c,$(OUTPUT)%.o,$(SRCS))

but it never actually set $(OUTPUT) before the blamed commit, meaning
that out-of-tree buils of ynltool were always actually in-tree.

Now, the O= parameter is correctly accounted for, and the %o: %c rule fails.

Let's update the %o: %c rule to also use $(OUTPUT), as well as the .d
file expansion so that any header change is taken into account.

Reported-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aqCyWQxqKDuQnZYR@devvm29614.prn0.facebook.com/
Fixes: 917f713b4ec4 ("tools: ynl: Allow cross-compiling ynl and associated tools")
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier (Netdev Foundation) <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
---
V2: Add include $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)*.d), from Nicolai

V1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260910085931.3c64f2ab@kernel.org/

 tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile b/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile
index b8c67cdb4fdf..e79b8af353c3 100644
--- a/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ OBJS := $(patsubst %.c,$(OUTPUT)%.o,$(SRCS))
 
 YNLTOOL := $(OUTPUT)ynltool
 
-include $(wildcard *.d)
+include $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)*.d)
 
 all: $(YNLTOOL)
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ $(YNLTOOL): ../libynl.a $(OBJS)
 	$(Q)echo -e "\tLINK $@"
 	$(Q)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) ../libynl.a -lm
 
-%.o: %.c ../libynl.a
+$(OUTPUT)%.o: %.c ../libynl.a
 	$(Q)echo -e "\tCC $@"
 	$(Q)$(COMPILE.c) -MMD -c -o $@ $<
 
-- 
2.55.0

On September 11, 2026 6:41:33 PM GMT+02:00, "Maxime Chevallier (Netdev Foundation)" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com> wrote:
>After the blamed commit, running a out-of-tree build for ynltool fails :
>
>  # make -C tools/net/ynl/ynltool O=/tmp/o1
>  make: Entering directory 'tools/net/ynl/ynltool'
>  make: *** No rule to make target '/tmp/o1/json_writer.o', needed by '/tmp/o1/ynltool'.  Stop.
>
>ynltool's Makefile correctly accounts for $(OUTPUT) to get the list of
>object files to generate :
>
>OBJS := $(patsubst %.c,$(OUTPUT)%.o,$(SRCS))
>
>but it never actually set $(OUTPUT) before the blamed commit, meaning
>that out-of-tree buils of ynltool were always actually in-tree.
>
>Now, the O= parameter is correctly accounted for, and the %o: %c rule fails.
>
>Let's update the %o: %c rule to also use $(OUTPUT), as well as the .d
>file expansion so that any header change is taken into account.
>
>Reported-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
>Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aqCyWQxqKDuQnZYR@devvm29614.prn0.facebook.com/
>Fixes: 917f713b4ec4 ("tools: ynl: Allow cross-compiling ynl and associated tools")
>Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier (Netdev Foundation) <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
>---
>V2: Add include $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)*.d), from Nicolai
>
>V1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260910085931.3c64f2ab@kernel.org/
>
> tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile b/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile
>index b8c67cdb4fdf..e79b8af353c3 100644
>--- a/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile
>+++ b/tools/net/ynl/ynltool/Makefile
>@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ OBJS := $(patsubst %.c,$(OUTPUT)%.o,$(SRCS))
> 
> YNLTOOL := $(OUTPUT)ynltool
> 
>-include $(wildcard *.d)
>+include $(wildcard $(OUTPUT)*.d)
> 
> all: $(YNLTOOL)
> 
>@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ $(YNLTOOL): ../libynl.a $(OBJS)
> 	$(Q)echo -e "\tLINK $@"
> 	$(Q)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) ../libynl.a -lm
> 
>-%.o: %.c ../libynl.a
>+$(OUTPUT)%.o: %.c ../libynl.a
> 	$(Q)echo -e "\tCC $@"
> 	$(Q)$(COMPILE.c) -MMD -c -o $@ $<
> 

Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>

Thanks,
Nicolai