Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161458AbWJaBOR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:14:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161531AbWJaBOR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:14:17 -0500 Received: from quickstop.soohrt.org ([85.131.246.152]:49624 "EHLO quickstop.soohrt.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161458AbWJaBOR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:14:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:14:16 +0100 From: Horst Schirmeier To: Andi Kleen 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch Message-ID: <20061031011416.GG2933@quickstop.soohrt.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andi Kleen , 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> <200610310119.10567.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610310119.10567.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 32 On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 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 I'm not sure what you mean by $(objdir); I just got something to work which creates the /dev/null symlink in a (newly created if necessary) directory named $(firstword $(obj-dirs) $(M))/.tmp which seems to be a good place for both normal kernel builds and external modules. External module builds seem not to set $(obj-dirs)... Objections? Kind regards, Horst -- PGP-Key 0xD40E0E7A - 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/