linux-kernel - Re: Unfortunate infinite make recursion

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Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:03:35 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unfortunate infinite make recursion

> > Please Oleg.
> > You know very well that most people will not have their kernel src RO.
> 
> Sure, if it will be not comfortable.
> 
> But if kbuild deals with this transparently, it must be OK. Brokenness
> due to binutils, kbuild, root user bugs won't garbage source. Only thing
> to ask from experienced users *and* kernel developers, is
> `useradd kbuild`, everything else will not bother anybody.
Better would be to fix the bugs where we today clobber the sources.
Care to point out the exact cases you see.

	Sam
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