linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [2/3] KBUILD: Add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs

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Message-ID: <20090107202913.GJ4647@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:29:13 +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] [2/3] KBUILD: Add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:21:42AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> I have some scripts which need to map back to the source directory
> from an objdir. This was so far done by parsing the Makefile,
> but the Makefile format changes occasionally and breaks my scripts
> then.
> 
> To make this more reliable add a "source" symlink back. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

Like we do when we install modules. Agreed this is usefull.
Applied.

	Sam
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