Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 20:01, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> 
> > > So you seems to be bitten by a distributor starting to use a new
> > > facility in kbuild.
> > 
> > SUSE folks made a silly mistake and broke stuff. It was even more silly for
> > them to try to submit that breakage to mainline.
> 
> Letting the symlink point to the build directory is the only sane option. 
> What's missing is that the native kernel tree itself should generate a 
> small Makefile in the build directory.
> SuSE did the right thing, it now just needs proper integration.
> 

The point is that many things will break.  Sure, I speak partly out of
the point of view of somebody who now and then do some distro work, but
also thinking about all those out there who might compile by hand.

I can see that how they want to do it might be more logical, but please
with sugar on, do not do it in 2.6.


Thanks.

-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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