tools/perf/build: Fix non-existent build directory handling

Arnaldo reported that non-existent build directories were not
recognized  properly. The reason is readlink failure causing 'O'
to become empty.

Solve it by passing through the 'O' variable unmodified if
readlink fails.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131009150023.GA10167@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 5aa3d040bbf3fa17c9bbffce14b8a3a6a2da70be..91470449516694369b00838d23e393b133ed061f 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ endif
 # Only pass canonical directory names as the output directory:
 #
 ifneq ($(O),)
-  FULL_O := $(shell readlink -f $(O))
+  FULL_O := $(shell readlink -f $(O) || echo $(O))
 endif
 
 define print_msg