Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030572AbWJaATY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:19:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030575AbWJaATY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:19:24 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:61933 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030572AbWJaATY (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:19:24 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Horst Schirmeier Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:19:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Oleg Verych , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Jan Beulich , dsd@gentoo.org, kernel@gentoo.org, draconx@gmail.com, jpdenheijer@gmail.com, Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg , LKML References: <20061029120858.GB3491@quickstop.soohrt.org> <20061031001235.GE2933@quickstop.soohrt.org> In-Reply-To: <20061031001235.GE2933@quickstop.soohrt.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610310119.10567.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 617 Lines: 15 > The problem is, this brings us back to the problem where this whole > patch orgy began: Gentoo Portage sandbox violations when writing (the > null symlink) to the kernel tree when building external modules. What > about using $(M) as a base directory if it is defined? I think Jan's $(objdir)/.tmp proposal would be cleanest. Just someone has to implement it :) -Andi - 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/