From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
Subject: Re: Makefile targets: tar & rpm pkgs, while using O=<dir> as non-root
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:58:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051220155839.GA9185@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5jru67j.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix>
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:41:04PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> but for normal software? What's the point?)
>
> I mean, instead of
>
> cd linux-2.6.blah
> make blah O=/some/directory
>
> you can always do
>
> cp -al linux-2.6.blah /some/directory/
> cd /some/directory
> make blah
Consider following use cases:
1) Src located on NFS mounted filesystem
2) Src on RO media
3) Src on another filesystem
4) Builds for several architectures from same source base
5) Builds for several different configurations
etc.
It is convinient in many places. Maybe not for you but for others.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-20 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-18 23:27 Linda Walsh
2005-12-19 7:19 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-12-19 22:12 ` Linda Walsh
2005-12-19 22:30 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2005-12-20 1:48 ` Linda Walsh
2005-12-30 6:33 ` patch for "scripts/package/buildtar" to pickup "localversion" on "/boot" file objects Linda A. Walsh
2005-12-30 10:15 ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-30 20:23 ` Linda A. Walsh
2005-12-20 15:41 ` Makefile targets: tar & rpm pkgs, while using O=<dir> as non-root Nix
2005-12-20 15:58 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2005-12-20 17:44 ` Nix
2005-12-20 17:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-12-20 20:25 ` Al Viro
2005-12-21 7:49 ` Nix
2005-12-21 8:18 ` Al Viro
2005-12-21 11:22 ` Nix
[not found] ` <52666.10.10.10.28.1135155403.squirrel@linux1>
2005-12-21 8:56 ` Sean
2005-12-20 17:20 ` Ryan Anderson
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