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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Qian_Riny@emc.com
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to separate obj and src for external module build?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:44:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805204426.GC5464@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74FD445BA9418847A54455595122B4B43F7F4F@CORPUSMX70C.corp.emc.com>

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:47:44AM -0400, Qian_Riny@emc.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to put all obj files (*.o, *.ko etc) into a different directory
> (e.g. obj/) 
> rather than the same src (*.c, Makefile) directory while building an
> external module:
> $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(SRC) modules
> How to do it?
> 
> I tried to use O (KBUILD_OUTPUT), but still no luck. It seems that
> O (KBUILD_OUTPUT) is just used for kernel build output.
> 
> $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(SRC) O=$(OBJ) modules
> It doesn't work.

This is not yet supported by kbuild and I have no plans to look
into it at the moment.

	Sam

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05  8:47 How to separate obj and src for external module build? Qian_Riny
2008-08-05 20:44 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]

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