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

Sam Ravnborg
2010-09-29T17:50:35Z

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.

Sam