Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: kbuild 2.5 release 2.4 | Date | Sun, 05 May 2002 12:27:17 +1000 |
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On Sat, 4 May 2002 09:19:51 -0700 (PDT), <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote: >On Sat, 4 May 2002, tomas szepe wrote: > >| Hmm, I don't think this analogy will do -- working with aliases involving >| fileutils as root is a way straight to hell, and hardly anyone ever walks >| it. With kbuild-2.5, however, I have to set $KBUILD_OBJTREE every time >| I want to build a kernel with objects out of the source dir -- and hey, >| is there a single person on this list who's never made a typo on the >| command line? >| >| I don't know how to properly emphasize that this *is* asking for problems, >| but still I'd be surprised if I were the only one scared by files not >| connected to the build getting erased on make mrproper. Hello, anyone? :) > >Too much policy here? > >| Would it be complicated to only kill the files the build knows it had >| created? > >That's what I would expect.
OK, it is now officially classed as an over optimization. I will change clean/mrproper in core-12 to only delete known files.
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