Re: Unfortunate infinite make recursion

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 16:38:44 EST


On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:42:52PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote:
> * Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:24:32 +0200 (CEST)
> []
> > The make O=$PWD truncates the Makefile, making it necessary to run `git
> > checkout Makefile` - should you have git; or reextract the tarball
> > (should you /still/ have it). Well, can we catch this case somehow?
>
> Read-only source-tree for kbuild user, end of question. By current kbuild
> one can garbage source by various means. Read-write for quilt, git and
> editor users.

Please Oleg.
You know very well that most people will not have their kernel src RO.

Sam
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