On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:30:32PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:27:12PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:21:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > Several of the scripts in "scripts" are useful to operate on > > > files in a separate objdir. Instead of always manually typing > > > the path to the source dir create a convenient symlink to > > > the source dir's script directory in the objdir too. > > > > > > I named it bin because scripts was already used for the object > > > files of scripts. > > > > So you suggest we in the O=... case should have > > a bin symlink to save you typing "source/sc<tab> > > Yes. > > > > > That does not justify another symlink in the output > > directory. > > Why not? They don't cost anything, do they? And > convenience matters. Different people have different needs. The next guys needs Arch to point at source/arch/$ARCH and so on. If it is convinient for your workflow I suggest you to create it yourself. Doing stuff like this as part of the build is simply the wrong place to do it. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
