Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423254AbWJaNpP (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:45:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423257AbWJaNpO (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:45:14 -0500 Received: from raven.upol.cz ([158.194.120.4]:38886 "EHLO raven.upol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423254AbWJaNpN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:45:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:36 +0100 To: Horst Schirmeier , Andi Kleen , 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: <20061031135136.GB16063@flower.upol.cz> References: <20061029120858.GB3491@quickstop.soohrt.org> <20061031001235.GE2933@quickstop.soohrt.org> <200610310119.10567.ak@suse.de> <20061031011416.GG2933@quickstop.soohrt.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061031011416.GG2933@quickstop.soohrt.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Oleg Verych Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 30 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:14:16AM +0100, Horst Schirmeier wrote: > 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 $(objtree) here, > 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 $(objtree) is a directory for all possible outputs of the build precess, it's set up by `O=' or `KBUILD_OUTPUT', and this is *not* output for ready external modules `$(M)'. Try to play with this, please. I'm looking for Sam to say something, if we must go further with this. ____ - 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/