Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264686AbUFSVNM (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:13:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264692AbUFSVNL (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:13:11 -0400 Received: from wblv-235-33.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.235.33]:43445 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264686AbUFSVNG (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:13:06 -0400 Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer To: Roman Zippel Cc: Jari Ruusu , Sam Ravnborg , 4Front Technologies , "Martin J. Bligh" , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <40D232AD.4020708@opensound.com> <3217460000.1087518092@flay> <40D23701.1030302@opensound.com> <20040618204655.GA4441@mars.ravnborg.org> <40D46B97.B82A439E@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6A3w3uxqRnATN6GSMzvW" Message-Id: <1087679544.14905.106.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:12:25 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1679 Lines: 56 --=-6A3w3uxqRnATN6GSMzvW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 20:01, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jari Ruusu wrote: >=20 > > > So you seems to be bitten by a distributor starting to use a new > > > facility in kbuild. > >=20 > > SUSE folks made a silly mistake and broke stuff. It was even more silly= for > > them to try to submit that breakage to mainline. >=20 > Letting the symlink point to the build directory is the only sane option.= =20 > What's missing is that the native kernel tree itself should generate a=20 > small Makefile in the build directory. > SuSE did the right thing, it now just needs proper integration. >=20 The point is that many things will break. Sure, I speak partly out of the point of view of somebody who now and then do some distro work, but also thinking about all those out there who might compile by hand. I can see that how they want to do it might be more logical, but please with sugar on, do not do it in 2.6. Thanks. --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-6A3w3uxqRnATN6GSMzvW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA1Kw4qburzKaJYLYRAnBqAJ0eYE5ZiaI+7UJQKLpS5xDLmmnXggCeNivZ 35FBy20q0lLouxeQ5LhlhbA= =4OJN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6A3w3uxqRnATN6GSMzvW-- - 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/