From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53441398.2020709@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533AFB06.6020207@infradead.org>
On 2014-04-01 19:44, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 03/31/2014 01:36 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> In the past I have rejected such patches - but today I fail to recall why.
>
> I believe that it was due this kind of patch allowing typos to cause
> builds that one does not want to make.
>
> E.g., if I already have O=OUT1 directory and I mistype O=OUT2, this will cause
> a full build (potentially) in OUT2, even if it should do a small rebuild in
> OUT1 instead.
I thought about this possibility before applying the patch. But if this
happens, then a build in the mistyped directory will immediately fail
due to lack of .config.
Michal
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-08 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-31 7:41 [PATCH] kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build Masahiro Yamada
2014-03-31 20:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-03-31 20:50 ` Michal Marek
2014-04-01 17:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-04-08 15:19 ` Michal Marek [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=53441398.2020709@suse.cz \
--to=mmarek@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rdunlap@infradead.org \
--cc=sam@ravnborg.org \
--cc=yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox