From 374386eea362396679fef6845875317ffe08f30f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Walker Lynch <eknp9n@reasoningtechnology.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:54:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] .

---
 developer/make/target_kmod.mk | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/developer/make/target_kmod.mk b/developer/make/target_kmod.mk
index 6481f19..4c806eb 100644
--- a/developer/make/target_kmod.mk
+++ b/developer/make/target_kmod.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 SOURCE_DIR  := cc
 BUILD_DIR   := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
-OUTPUT_DIR  := scratchpad/kmod
+
+# must be an absolute path
+OUTPUT_DIR  := $(abspath scratchpad/kmod)
 
 # authored module basenames (without .kmod.c)
 BASE_LIST   := $(patsubst %.kmod.c,%,$(notdir $(wildcard cc/*.kmod.c)))
@@ -23,7 +25,6 @@ version:
 
 .PHONY: information
 information:
-	@printf "· → Unicode middle dot — visible: [%b]\n" "·"
 	@echo "SOURCE_DIR: " $(SOURCE_DIR)
 	@echo "BUILD_DIR: " $(BUILD_DIR)
 	@echo "OUTPUT_DIR: " $(OUTPUT_DIR)
-- 
2.20.1