From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: relative objtree change broke tar builds?
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B71FB4.2000408@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140619012116.GA10046@milliways>
Dne 19.6.2014 03:21, Ken Moffat napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:47:28PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>
>> The idea is that one should be able to compare as much as possible
>> between the build of /usr/src/linux-<version_a> built in
>> /usr/src/linux-<version_a>/build and /usr/src/linux-<version_b> built in
>> /usr/src/linux-<version_b>/build.
> [...]
> Some of us (me included) often build things as root, but it has
> many risks and people ought not to be led to believe it is
> necessarily the correct way to do things. Over the past 14 years I
> have built kernels in ~/ as well as in other user-writable
> directories and I am puzzled about why the idea of /usr/src/linux*
> continues to exist.
I just used /usr/src/linux as an example. If I wrote
/dev/shm/linux-2.6/build, which is where I often builf kernels, then I'm
sure somebody would complain that they tried it and ran out of memory :-).
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-04 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-17 22:38 relative objtree change broke tar builds? J. Bruce Fields
2014-06-18 9:06 ` Michal Marek
2014-06-18 12:20 ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-06-18 12:33 ` Michal Marek
2014-06-18 13:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-06-18 15:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-06-18 19:47 ` Michal Marek
2014-06-18 19:52 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-06-18 21:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-07-04 21:37 ` Michal Marek
2014-07-04 21:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-07-07 1:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-06-18 21:20 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-06-19 1:21 ` Ken Moffat
2014-07-04 21:42 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-06-18 14:26 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Fix tar-pkg with relative $(objtree) Michal Marek
2014-06-18 15:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-06-18 15:34 ` Michal Marek
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