"Richard B. Johnson" writes: >On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> Based on some initial work by Kai Germaschewski I have made a >> working prototype of separate obj/src tree. >> >> Usage example: >> #src located in ~/bk/linux-2.5.sepobj >> mkdir ~/compile/v2.5 >> cd ~/compile/v2.5 >> sh ../../kb/v2.5/kbuild >[SNIPPED...] >I have a question; "What problem is this supposed to solve?" >This looks like a M$ism to me. Real source trees don't >look like this. If you don't have write access to the source- >code tree, you are screwed on a real project anyway. That's >why we have CVS, tar and other tools to provide a local copy. Having Trees read-only checked out? Having Trees on "pseudo filesystems" backed by a SCM? This is the same thing we do in Java Land for ages. I personally like it buy your taste may vary. Regards Henning -- "In einem Abwägungsprozess, wollen wir weiter regieren, hat sich die SPD und die Bundesregierung und auch der Bundesfinanzminister fürs Weiterregieren entschieden und gegen die Ehrlichkeit" -- Oswald Metzger, Bündnis '90/Die Grünen, 12.11.2002 -- Henning Schmiedehausen "Interpol und Deutsche Bank, FBI und hps@intermeta.de Scotland Yard, Flensburg und das BKA henning@forge.franken.de haben unsere Daten da." -- Kraftwerk, 1981