On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > Based on some initial work by Kai Germaschewski I have made a > > working prototype of separate obj/src tree. > > > > Usage example: > > #src located in ~/bk/linux-2.5.sepobj > > mkdir ~/compile/v2.5 > > cd ~/compile/v2.5 > > sh ../../kb/v2.5/kbuild > > [SNIPPED...] > > I have a question; "What problem is this supposed to solve?" > This looks like a M$ism to me. Real source trees don't > look like this. If you don't have write access to the source- > code tree, you are screwed on a real project anyway. That's > why we have CVS, tar and other tools to provide a local copy.
It can be really nice to maintain a bunch of different architectures at the same time from the same tree. It also makes it really easy to "clean" a tree. On the other hand, I do wonder whether ccache could be used to get the same effect. Sam? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
