Re: Unification of Makefiles for kernel build?

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:45:33 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:

>> Isn't it better to make the current make procedure work? As it is, I
>> cannot step into a directory and type 'make', because some things are
>> only included in the top level makefile.
>
>Dancing Makefiles (TM) do that.
>
>> Also, why not make it build with srcdir != objdir, just like any
>> autoconf software?
>
>Dancing Makefiles (TM) do that.
>
>Right now it's 2.2 time though.

The bttv driver as a separate package does:

here:
DIR=`pwd`; (cd $(KERNEL_LOCATION); make SUBDIRS=$$DIR modules)

Not ideal, but it works.

-George

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