Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: correct variable definitions in makefiles.txt

matt mooney
2010-09-29T23:20:36Z

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