From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:45:36 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC v1 01/14] Add a new "src" directory in the output directory In-Reply-To: <2395397.i0MApMWjWq@sagittae> References: <1358725943-31485-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1436311.zC6hLLIaar@sagittae> <20130122174902.3f2eca8b@skate> <2395397.i0MApMWjWq@sagittae> Message-ID: <20130123164536.58d9e607@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear J?r?me Pouiller, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:12:49 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller wrote: > > This last point is the main reason. For now, the > > LINUX_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR mechanism is barely usable because it does a > > complete rsync of the Linux source tree, which is very annoying. > > So, switching all packages to out of tree build sounds like an > > interesting solution. > And what about building in a subdirectory of source directory ? I am not sure why you think it would solve any problem, but it is anyway not possible for packages for which _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR is used: we certainly do *not* want to build in a subdirectory of the source directory. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com