From: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: correct variable definitions in makefiles.txt
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:19:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100929231904.GB21930@haskell.muteddisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100929175031.GA9278@merkur.ravnborg.org>
On 19:50 Wed 29 Sep , Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:03:29PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> > On 20.9.2010 08:33, matt mooney wrote:
> > > Change $(src) and $(obj) definitions to state the path as absolute and
> > > not relative.
> >
> > It _is_ a relative patch, AFAICS. What makes you think otherwise?
>
> With extenal modules $(src) and $(obj) are absolute - but in nomal use they are relative.
> And again in normal use they are also equal. I usually say that we have two just to document
> what is srource and what is generated.
Ah, I see. Sorry, I should have looked into this more. Now you did say in normal
use they are equal, but I thought they were also equal when used for an external
module too. Am I missing something?
Thanks,
mfm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 6:33 [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: correct variable definitions in makefiles.txt matt mooney
2010-09-29 15:03 ` Michal Marek
2010-09-29 17:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-09-29 23:19 ` matt mooney [this message]
2010-10-01 20:56 ` Michal Marek
2010-10-02 4:14 ` matt mooney
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