From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mundt Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:11:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use relative path when creating include/asm/{mach,cpu} symlinks Message-Id: <20080318031149.GA3302@linux-sh.org> List-Id: References: <47DEC594.6010502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47DEC594.6010502@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:25:08PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > From: Franck Bui-Huu > > Usually relative paths are preferred because they survive directory > moves, work across networked file systems/chrooted environments. > Usually, yes. But in this case, as Stuart noted, they are needed for out-of-tree builds. It would be nice to get rid of the symlinks completely, and Sam had some ideas on how we could do that by doing a massive header reorganization, which is probably the way we'll go in the longer run. For now we just have to live with the obfuscation. Patches that clean it up without breaking existing behaviour are welcome, though.