Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:17:35 +0000 | Subject | kbuild-mm: $(objtree)/knull vs mktemp (was Re: [PATCH -mm] replacement for broken kbuild-dont-put-temp-files-in-the-source-tree.patch) | From | Oleg Verych <> |
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:27:57AM +0100, Horst Schirmeier wrote: > # Immortal knull for mortals and roots > define knull > $(shell \ > if test ! -L knull; \ > then rm -f knull; ln -s /dev/null knull; \ > fi; \ > echo knull) > endef
So, i think this is much better than mktemp and friends. Current -mm have +4 temp files after every make help, make, make something.
I'm steel looking forward for comments from (busy) developers, like Sam.
Now i have my laptop back and i can finish this up. Hm? ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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