Re: asm-offsets.h is generated in the source tree

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:30:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> * Provide a function that would
> 	take target of form <directory>/.<link>
> 	create a symlink at <directory>/<link> to argument of function,
> doing obvious changes for O=
> 	touch the target

ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
define symlink
        $(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
        $(Q)ln -sn $(srctree)/$(dir $@)/$1 $(dir $@)$(patsubst .%,%,$(notdir $@))
        $(Q)touch $@
endef
else
define symlink
        $(Q)ln -sn $1 $(dir $@)$(patsubst .%,%,$(notdir $@))
        $(Q)touch $@
endef
endif

would do it, AFAICS.  Objections?