linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [3/3] KBUILD: Add a "bin" symlink for the scripts directory too

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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:27:12 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/3] KBUILD: Add a "bin" symlink for the scripts directory too

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:21:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Several of the scripts in "scripts" are useful to operate on
> files in a separate objdir. Instead of always manually typing
> the path to the source dir create a convenient symlink to
> the source dir's script directory in the objdir too.
> 
> I named it bin because scripts was already used for the object
> files of scripts.

So you suggest we in the O=... case should have
a bin symlink to save you typing "source/sc<tab>

That does not justify another symlink in the output
directory.

	Sam
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