From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53441398.2020709@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533AFB06.6020207@infradead.org>
On 2014-04-01 19:44, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 03/31/2014 01:36 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> In the past I have rejected such patches - but today I fail to recall why.
>
> I believe that it was due this kind of patch allowing typos to cause
> builds that one does not want to make.
>
> E.g., if I already have O=OUT1 directory and I mistype O=OUT2, this will cause
> a full build (potentially) in OUT2, even if it should do a small rebuild in
> OUT1 instead.
I thought about this possibility before applying the patch. But if this
happens, then a build in the mistyped directory will immediately fail
due to lack of .config.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-08 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-31 7:41 [PATCH] kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build Masahiro Yamada
2014-03-31 20:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-03-31 20:50 ` Michal Marek
2014-04-01 17:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-04-08 15:19 ` Michal Marek [this message]
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2014-12-24 4:35 Masahiro Yamada
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