On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:33:59PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > Out of tree builds are much more convenient when building for multiple > architectures or configurations in parallel. > > Only absolute O= parameters are supported as Makefile.include will > always resolve relative paths in relation to $(srctree) instead of the > current directory. > > Add a call to "make outputmakefile" to verify that the sourcetree is > clean. At first this worried me, I thought you meant clean in the git meaning, but it's clean as in "make clean" from what I'm seeing. Yeah that sounds reasonable. > This is based on Zhangjins out-of-tree patch. > It extends that work for get_init_cpio support and also drops relative > O= specifications explicitly. Yeah I remember these discussions about these shortcomings, that's pretty reasonable. > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/06d96bd81fe812a9718098a383678ad3beba98b1.1691215074.git.falcon@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (...) I think you should add a Suggested-by at least since Zhangjin attempted that work quite a few times already and allowed to make progress in that direction (maybe even co-developed, I'm not sure). Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Willy
