Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760208AbaGDVmP (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:42:15 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60689 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753522AbaGDVmO (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:42:14 -0400 Message-ID: <53B71FB4.2000408@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:42:12 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Moffat CC: Randy Dunlap , "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: relative objtree change broke tar builds? References: <20140617223854.GC6168@fieldses.org> <53A15684.9000002@suse.cz> <20140618122029.GA17790@fieldses.org> <53A18712.6030907@suse.cz> <20140618131452.GB17790@fieldses.org> <53A1B72E.7030907@infradead.org> <53A1ECD0.2030001@suse.cz> <20140619012116.GA10046@milliways> In-Reply-To: <20140619012116.GA10046@milliways> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dne 19.6.2014 03:21, Ken Moffat napsal(a): > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:47:28PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> >> The idea is that one should be able to compare as much as possible >> between the build of /usr/src/linux- built in >> /usr/src/linux-/build and /usr/src/linux- built in >> /usr/src/linux-/build. > [...] > Some of us (me included) often build things as root, but it has > many risks and people ought not to be led to believe it is > necessarily the correct way to do things. Over the past 14 years I > have built kernels in ~/ as well as in other user-writable > directories and I am puzzled about why the idea of /usr/src/linux* > continues to exist. I just used /usr/src/linux as an example. If I wrote /dev/shm/linux-2.6/build, which is where I often builf kernels, then I'm sure somebody would complain that they tried it and ran out of memory :-). Michal -- 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/