From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:27:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:27:28 -0400 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:22532 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:27:27 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: lkml Subject: Re: kbuild 2.5 release 2.4 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 May 2002 09:19:51 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 12:27:17 +1000 Message-ID: <2334.1020565637@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 4 May 2002 09:19:51 -0700 (PDT), wrote: >On Sat, 4 May 2002, tomas szepe wrote: > >| Hmm, I don't think this analogy will do -- working with aliases involving >| fileutils as root is a way straight to hell, and hardly anyone ever walks >| it. With kbuild-2.5, however, I have to set $KBUILD_OBJTREE every time >| I want to build a kernel with objects out of the source dir -- and hey, >| is there a single person on this list who's never made a typo on the >| command line? >| >| I don't know how to properly emphasize that this *is* asking for problems, >| but still I'd be surprised if I were the only one scared by files not >| connected to the build getting erased on make mrproper. Hello, anyone? :) > >Too much policy here? > >| Would it be complicated to only kill the files the build knows it had >| created? > >That's what I would expect. OK, it is now officially classed as an over optimization. I will change clean/mrproper in core-12 to only delete known files.