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On 2026-02-11 09:52, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 09:40, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I do too. And so I do make in the build directory, or tack on the O=
>> option. FAR more annoying to me is that kbuild requires you to do the make
>> command in the root directory of the tree.
> 
> It would indeed be lovely if "make" in subdirectories would find their
> way back home.
> 
>> "make -C ../../../../.. arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.o" is not really
>> much better than
> 
> Yeah, I live in the top directory most of the time, so I go the other
> way and just do
> 
>    make arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.o
> 
> or whatever path I'm interested in (sometimes just a whole subdirectory).
> 
> And then I depend on good autocomplete of filenames, so I never
> actually type out that full path.
> 
I just wrote up a script called kmake and added it to my scripts repository:

	https://git.zytor.com/linux/ktest/tree/bin/kmake

	-hpa