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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Cc: Linux Kbuild Mailing List <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mmarek@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD_OUTPUT automatically
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:55:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8033.1319475304@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:12:29 EDT." <alpine.LNX.2.00.1110221049460.59156@linux>

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:12:29 EDT, Peter Foley said:
> This patch makes it possible to execute make O=work instead of
> mkdir work
> make O=work

The case can be made that this is a Bad Idea, because it means you can't catch
a typo in your O= setting.  This is particularly bad when it silently fails to
update the stuff in out-dir because you did a 'make O=out-diir'.

So NACK on this, if anybody cares what I think... ;)


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22 15:12 [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD_OUTPUT automatically Peter Foley
2011-10-24 16:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2011-12-11 20:34 ` Michal Marek

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