From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933050Ab1JXQ4W (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:56:22 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:35313 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932979Ab1JXQ4T (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:56:19 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: Peter Foley Cc: Linux Kbuild Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mmarek@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD_OUTPUT automatically In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:12:29 EDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1319475304_2592P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:55:04 -0400 Message-ID: <8033.1319475304@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=dagger.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020201.4EA59872.0032,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1319475304_2592P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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... ;) --==_Exmh_1319475304_2592P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFOpZhocC3lWbTT17ARAl/eAJ97DHrnIkFcivMcLg/HgJbTA6pECwCfehy0 HCq3iqgo/rN5u7o+XasDpvY= =XURA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1319475304_2592P--