From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753664AbZAJD4q (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:56:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751599AbZAJD4i (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:56:38 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:36492 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751433AbZAJD4h (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:56:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:56:13 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] KBUILD: Create the source symlink earlier in the objdir Message-ID: <20090110035613.GA7225@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org KBUILD: Create the source symlink earlier in the objdir It's useful to already have the source symlink in a objdir when one just runs make *config. Then one can do mkdir obj-allyes cd obj-allyes make -C ../sourcedir O=$(pwd) allyesconfig ./source/scripts/config --disable debug_info make CC=icecc -j18 without having to interrupt the make first just to get the source symlink. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux-2.6.28-kbuild/Makefile =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.28-kbuild.orig/Makefile 2009-01-07 22:16:49.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.28-kbuild/Makefile 2009-01-10 04:50:53.000000000 +0100 @@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ # output directory. outputmakefile: ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),) + @ln -fsn $(srctree) $(objtree)/source $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile \ $(srctree) $(objtree) $(VERSION) $(PATCHLEVEL) endif