Re: Check handling of kernel build output directory

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:32:54PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Oct 26 2007 21:05, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >>> Aren't you supposed to use O= as described by "make help"?
> >> 
> >> I expect that both ways should work. I find it easier to use the environment variable
> >> "KBUILD_OUTPUT" because the command line parameter does not need to be repeated on each
> >> make invocation.
> >
> >A wording correction:
> >I expect that both ways should work. I find it easier to use the environment variable
> >"KBUILD_OUTPUT" because it does not need to be repeated on each make invocation like it
> >must happen with the command line parameter "O=".
> 
> So why not just...
> 	export O=/foo/bar

When introducing the make O=...
I was a bit anal about where the definition of O came from so you will see
that in the top-level Makefile we check if O= is defined at the commandline:

ifdef O
  ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
    KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(O)
  endif
endif

"O" is just too vague to be picked up from the environment.

	Sam