linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD

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Message-ID: <8033.1319475304@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:55:04 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Peter Foley <pefoley2@...izon.net>
Cc:	Linux Kbuild Mailing List <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mmarek@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] try to create KBUILD_OUTPUT automatically

On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:12:29 EDT, Peter Foley said:
> This patch makes it possible to execute make O=work instead of
> mkdir work
> make O=work

The case can be made that this is a Bad Idea, because it means you can't catch
a typo in your O= setting.  This is particularly bad when it silently fails to
update the stuff in out-dir because you did a 'make O=out-diir'.

So NACK on this, if anybody cares what I think... ;)

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