Re: [Patch 0/8] Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Jan 01 2008 - 05:09:53 EST


On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:13:11PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
>
> TOPDIR is obsolete, use srctree or objtree instead.

Glad to see this being done - long overdue.

Most of your patches (if not all) replaces TOPDIR
with objtree but usage of objtree is only
correct when dealing with output files.
Note that objtree != srctree only for O=... builds.

And a few cases should be dealt with differently.
See individual comments.

Sam
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