Hi Yamada-san,
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:15 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:52 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch series contains several build fixes and cleanups for issues I
> > encountered when trying to cross-build an rtctest binary in a separate
> > output directory (like I use for all my kernel builds).
>
> Geert,
> Thanks for working on this!
>
> My fundamental question is,
> why did tools/ opt out Kbuild?
Good question. I think it originally started as a separate small project.
> I think lots of mess comes in
> in order to support
> cd tools/gpio; make
>
> instead of
>
> make tools/gpio/
>
> Lots of files are duplicated in tools/build/
> in order to invent a different build system for tools/
I agree switching to kbuild would be the best solution.
Unfortunately my kbuild foo is not strong enough...
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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