Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:16:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:16:13 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:14468 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:16:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:22:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Sam Ravnborg cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kai Germaschewski Subject: Re: [RFC/CFT] Separate obj/src dir In-Reply-To: <20021119201110.GA11192@mars.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 30 On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Based on some initial work by Kai Germaschewski I have made a > working prototype of separate obj/src tree. > > Usage example: > #src located in ~/bk/linux-2.5.sepobj > mkdir ~/compile/v2.5 > cd ~/compile/v2.5 > sh ../../kb/v2.5/kbuild [SNIPPED...] I have a question; "What problem is this supposed to solve?" This looks like a M$ism to me. Real source trees don't look like this. If you don't have write access to the source- code tree, you are screwed on a real project anyway. That's why we have CVS, tar and other tools to provide a local copy. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Bush : The Fourth Reich of America - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/