Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

John Levon (levon@movementarian.org)
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:05:31 +0100


On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:59:00PM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:

> ChangeSet@1.676, 2002-10-02 14:42:00-05:00, kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
> kbuild: Remove xfs vpath hack

Why is it a hack ?

> xfs.o is built as one modules out of objects distributed into
> multiple subdirs. That is okay with the current kbuild, you just
> have to include the path for objects which reside in a subdir, then.
>
> xfs used vpath instead of explicitly adding the paths, which is
> inconsistent and conflicts e.g. with proper module version generation.

So I must name the full path for each object in drivers/oprofile/ I
include from arch/i386/oprofile/ then ?

regards
john
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