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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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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