Re: kbuild: Create Makefile in output dir for *config targets

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> --- a/Makefile	2004-10-27 11:08:59 -07:00
> +++ b/Makefile	2004-10-27 11:08:59 -07:00
> @@ -379,6 +379,18 @@
>  scripts_basic:
>  	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/basic
>  
> +.PHONY: outputmakefile
> +# outputmakefile generate a Makefile to be placed in output directory, if
> +# using a seperate output directory. This allows convinient use
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
						    convenient
> +# of make in output directory
> +outputmakefile:
> +	$(Q)if /usr/bin/env test ! $(srctree) -ef $(objtree); then \
> +	$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile              \
> +	    $(srctree) $(objtree) $(VERSION) $(PATCHLEVEL)         \
> +	    > $(objtree)/Makefile;                                 \
> +	    echo '  GEN    $(objtree)/Makefile';                   \
> +	fi
> +

BTW, at least in 2.6.10-rc1 there's still something wrong with dependencies
when doing:

    make dir/file.o

or

    make dir/

in the output directory. The full `make' does seem to care about all
dependencies.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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