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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:14:20 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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On 2014-09-09 13:03, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),$(srctree)/) was a useful strategy
> to omit a long absolute path for in-source-tree build
> prior to commit 890676c65d699db3ad82e7dddd0cf8fb449031af
> (kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree).

I think it was quite pointless even back then :).


> Now $(srctree) is "." when building in the source tree.
> It would not be annoying to add "$(srctree)/" all the time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>

Applied to kbuild.git#kbuild, thanks.

Michal