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From: Florian Fainelli via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: "Arnout Vandecappelle" <arnout@rnout.be>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org,
	"Eric Le Bihan" <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>,
	"Gary Bisson" <bisson.gary@gmail.com>,
	"Jérôme Pouiller" <jezz@sysmic.org>,
	"Bernd Kuhls" <bernd@kuhls.net>,
	"Thomas Perale" <thomas.perale@mind.be>,
	"Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
	"Refik Tuzakli" <tuzakli.refik@gmail.com>,
	"Francois Perrad" <francois.perrad.86@gmail.com>,
	"Petr Vorel" <petr.vorel@gmail.com>,
	"Spenser Gilliland" <spenser@gillilanding.com>,
	"Giulio Benetti" <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>,
	"Pascal de Bruijn" <p.debruijn@unilogic.nl>,
	"Luca Ceresoli" <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>,
	"Romain Naour" <romain.naour@gmail.com>,
	"Mahyar Koshkouei" <mahyar.koshkouei@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/23] Support building the Linux kernel out of tree with LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:56:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae0634ed-d834-4ff6-a239-6fdbdb180334@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <auD5d-yrritLxAfN@windsurf>

On 10/27/26 12:22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 09:53:07AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
>>>    The only inconsistency that FOO_SUPPORTS_OUT_OF_TREE is only used if
>>> FOO_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR is also set, not for "normal" builds.
>>
>> That is a good point, FOO_SUPPORTS_OUT_OF_TREE is capability being
>> advertised, it should be unconditional.
>>
>> Is the direction we want to be putting the sources in a separate directory
>> all of the time?
> 
> That was the direction I initially wanted to take with this
> out-of-tree build work. I'm not saying we must absolutely stick to
> this initial direction, just stating what my initial intention was.

Do we have any preference on where that directory should be, and how it 
should be named? output/*/sources/?

> 
> I really like when things are consistent, and so for me this
> out-of-tree thing had to be an all or nothing thing. But maybe I'm too
> psychorigid :-)

Consistency is important!
-- 
Florian
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-27 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-23 21:47 [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/23] Support building the Linux kernel out of tree with LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/23] package: prepare removal of <pkg>_DIR Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/23] infra: introduce a global SRC_DIR variable Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/23] package: fix <pkg>_SRCDIR and <pkg>_BUILDDIR values Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/23] boot/boot-wrapper-aarch64: needs LINUX_BUILDDIR Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/23] boot/mxs-bootlets: needs (BAREBOX, LINUX, UBOOT)_BUILDDIR Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/23] linux/extensions: point to proper _SRCDIR and @D Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/23] linux/linux: LINUX_VERSION_PROBED should run from build directory Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51 ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/23] package: use <pkg>_SRCSUBDIR where <pkg>_SRCDIR used to include _SUBDIR Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/23] linux: build out of tree when LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR is set Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/23] packages: sync host and target patch hooks Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/23] omniorb: avoid target-only patch hook Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/23] lua: rework post-patch hook usage Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-24 10:46     ` François PERRAD
2026-10-27 16:43       ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/23] infra: host packages inherit the target extra downloads Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 14/23] package/libtool: use post-patch hooks Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/23] package/libtool: also apply libtool-patch to host libtool Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 16/23] package/{ffmpeg, libvpx}: use $(@D) instead of $(pkg_SRCDIR) when possible Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 17/23] package/perl: apply the perl-cross even for the host variant Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-24 10:20     ` François PERRAD
2026-10-27 16:44       ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 18/23] infra/autotools: warn for package that autoreconf without libtool patch Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 19/23] packages: replace $(PKG)_DIR with @D where possible Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 20/23] linux: support custom logo and devicetree files in out-of-tree builds Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 21/23] package/linux-tools: support an out-of-tree kernel build Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 22/23] package: read kernel headers from LINUX_SRCDIR Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-23 21:51   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 23/23] docs/manual: document out-of-tree package builds and the new srcdir variables Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-24 20:44 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/23] Support building the Linux kernel out of tree with LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-26 21:49   ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-27  8:14     ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2026-10-27  8:26       ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-27  8:43         ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2026-10-27 12:41           ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-27 12:44     ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-27 13:53       ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2026-10-27 16:53         ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-27 19:22           ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-27 19:56             ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot [this message]
2026-10-28 18:16               ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-28 18:35                 ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-28 19:26                   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-27 20:32             ` Fiona Klute via buildroot
2026-10-28 18:18               ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-28 18:34                 ` Florian Fainelli via buildroot
2026-10-28 19:26                   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot

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