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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/3] KBUILD: Add a "bin" symlink for the scripts directory too
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:36:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090107213636.GA9273@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107213032.GM496@one.firstfloor.org>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-03  2:21 [PATCH] [1/3] KBUILD: Add script to manipulate .config files on the command line Andi Kleen
2009-01-03  2:21 ` [PATCH] [2/3] KBUILD: Add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs Andi Kleen
2009-01-07 20:29   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-03  2:21 ` [PATCH] [3/3] KBUILD: Add a "bin" symlink for the scripts directory too Andi Kleen
2009-01-07 20:27   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-07 21:30     ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-07 21:36       ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-01-03 10:54 ` [PATCH] [1/3] KBUILD: Add script to manipulate .config files on the command line Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-03 17:12   ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-07 20:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-07 21:33   ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-07 22:07     ` Sam Ravnborg

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