Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:17:35 +0000
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
       draconx@gmail.com, jpdenheijer@gmail.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: kbuild-mm: $(objtree)/knull vs mktemp (was Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch)
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:27:57AM +0100, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
> # Immortal knull for mortals and roots
> define knull
>   $(shell \
>     if test ! -L knull; \
>       then rm -f knull; ln -s /dev/null knull; \
>     fi; \
>     echo knull)
> endef

So, i think this is much better than mktemp and friends.
Current -mm have +4 temp files after every make help, make, make something.

I'm steel looking forward for comments from (busy) developers, like Sam.

Now i have my laptop back and i can finish this up. Hm?
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