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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:14:38 +0100
From: Alex Riesen <Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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       Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/CFT] Separate obj/src dir
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:10:03PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:11:10PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > The kbuild shell script takes a verbatim copy of all Makefiles,
> > all Kconfig files and all defconfigs. I did not even look into
> > using symlinks, I was not sure how they work across NFS
> > and the like.
> 
> But Kconfigs and defconfigs belong to the sources, don't they?
> 
> Suppose you have a main source tree and multiple objdirs with a
> purpose to test different .configs. Now if you update the main
> tree (including it's Kconfigs), objdirs are broken. The copies
> of Kconfigs are obsoleted and maybe unrelated at all. Also makefiles.

Nevermind, found your script with symlinks.

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