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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] [3/3] KBUILD: Add a "bin" symlink for the scripts directory too
    On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:27:12PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
    > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:21:43AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
    > >
    > > Several of the scripts in "scripts" are useful to operate on
    > > files in a separate objdir. Instead of always manually typing
    > > the path to the source dir create a convenient symlink to
    > > the source dir's script directory in the objdir too.
    > >
    > > I named it bin because scripts was already used for the object
    > > files of scripts.
    >
    > So you suggest we in the O=... case should have
    > a bin symlink to save you typing "source/sc<tab>

    Yes.

    >
    > That does not justify another symlink in the output
    > directory.

    Why not? They don't cost anything, do they? And
    convenience matters.

    -Andi

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    ak@linux.intel.com


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