Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:21:33 -0800 (PST) | From | ferret@phonewav ... |
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > [ferret@phonewave.net] > > One last question: WHY is the kernel's top-level Makefile handling > > this symlink? > > Where do you think it should be handled? 'make modules_install' seems > like the most logical place, to me.
I think making the symlink should be handled outside the proper scope of the top-level Makefile, for reasons I have brought up earlier in this discussion; The Makefile is simply not equipped to know the full state of the system it is being run for outside the simple case of one single machine.
s/WHY is/For which specific reasons is/
Anyway, the associated discussions cleared up nearly all the technical-related questions I had. The remaining questions relate toward policy-issues orthogontal to implementation details. I am still a little unclear on the nature of the problem this symlink is meant to solve.
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