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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually.
> >
> > Why? What advantage does that have?
> >
> > I've been using the copy-it-there approach for maybe four years and have
> > yet to notice any problem with it.
>
> Pretty much every other tool removes the old file before or after creating
> the new file. This allows it to work with a hardlinked tree, which
> unfortunately is currently broken for other reasons in kbuild.

OK. S_ISLNK? `setenv DONT_BE_IRRITATING 1'?

> Could you send me link or a copy of your build tools, which deals with the
> symlink?

Not sure what you mean really. I use the normal in-tree things, plus the
patch in the earlier email.

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