Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:36 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch | From | Oleg Verych <> |
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:14:16AM +0100, Horst Schirmeier wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > The problem is, this brings us back to the problem where this whole > > > patch orgy began: Gentoo Portage sandbox violations when writing (the > > > null symlink) to the kernel tree when building external modules. What > > > about using $(M) as a base directory if it is defined? > > > > I think Jan's $(objdir)/.tmp proposal would be cleanest. Just someone > > has to implement it :) > > > > -Andi
$(objtree) here,
> I'm not sure what you mean by $(objdir); I just got something to work > which creates the /dev/null symlink in a (newly created if necessary) > directory named
$(objtree) is a directory for all possible outputs of the build precess, it's set up by `O=' or `KBUILD_OUTPUT', and this is *not* output for ready external modules `$(M)'. Try to play with this, please.
I'm looking for Sam to say something, if we must go further with this. ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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