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

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>]

On Oct 02, 2002  21:59 -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> The build process remains recursive, but it changes the recursion
> from 
> 	make -C subdir
> to
> 	make -f subdir/Makefile
> 
> i.e. the current working directory remains the top dir for all times. So 
> gcc/ld/.. are now called from the topdir, allowing to closer resemble 
> a non-recursive build. Some Makefiles may need a little additional 
> tweaking (in particular arch/*), but generally, the changes required are 
> pretty small.

This is nice, because if you are doing "make -j[n]" you currently get
dumped into the wrong file (or just some non-existent file in the wrong
directory) on build warnings and errors (when compiling under vim/emacs)
because e.g. the "make[1]: entering directory fs/ext3" message was
followed by "make[1]: entering directory fs/msdos", while still
compiling files in fs/ext3.

Granted, this isn't a great reason to change, but it bugs me every
day.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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