Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264386AbUFSSCS (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:02:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264388AbUFSSCS (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:02:18 -0400 Received: from smtp-out6.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.7]:40459 "EHLO smtp-out6.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264386AbUFSSCR (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:02:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:01:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.local To: Jari Ruusu cc: Sam Ravnborg , 4Front Technologies , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness In-Reply-To: <40D46B97.B82A439E@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: References: <40D232AD.4020708@opensound.com> <3217460000.1087518092@flay> <40D23701.1030302@opensound.com> <20040618204655.GA4441@mars.ravnborg.org> <40D46B97.B82A439E@users.sourceforge.net> 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: 777 Lines: 21 Hi, On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > So you seems to be bitten by a distributor starting to use a new > > facility in kbuild. > > SUSE folks made a silly mistake and broke stuff. It was even more silly for > them to try to submit that breakage to mainline. Letting the symlink point to the build directory is the only sane option. What's missing is that the native kernel tree itself should generate a small Makefile in the build directory. SuSE did the right thing, it now just needs proper integration. bye, Roman - 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/