Hi! > > > Another approach would be to ask kbuild for > > > this information so we do not expose various filenames to the > > > outer world. > > > > For shell scripts and makefiles, running a command like make and retrieving > > its output via pipe is de rigueur. But for some other programs it might be > > substantially less hassle to just read plain files. That's what I was > > thinking, anyway. (I only really think that $ARCH is something that anyone > > would want to fetch before they'd run make anyway, and I guess $SUBARCH in > > the case of ARCH=um, but not $CROSS_COMPILE.) > > > > > This is analogous to the way we ask for > > > kernelrelease and kernelversion these days. > > > > Except that include/config/kernel.release is there for all to see (when > > referring to /lib/modules/.../build directory, e.g.), so perhaps some > > people are in fact using that. > > So when I move that file to include/generated I will break users script silently - sigh. > > Revised patch following your guidelines below. > Does this look better to you? Well.. having that option in .config, so it can be easily transported between trees (as proposed originally) would be even nicer, but I guess this is better than nothing. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
