Re: [RFC/CFT] Separate obj/src dir

From: Alex Riesen (Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 08:14:38 EST


On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:10:03PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:11:10PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > The kbuild shell script takes a verbatim copy of all Makefiles,
> > all Kconfig files and all defconfigs. I did not even look into
> > using symlinks, I was not sure how they work across NFS
> > and the like.
>
> But Kconfigs and defconfigs belong to the sources, don't they?
>
> Suppose you have a main source tree and multiple objdirs with a
> purpose to test different .configs. Now if you update the main
> tree (including it's Kconfigs), objdirs are broken. The copies
> of Kconfigs are obsoleted and maybe unrelated at all. Also makefiles.

Nevermind, found your script with symlinks.

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