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Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] allow make O=/path/to/build/dir ARCH=XEN
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Date:	Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:08:50 +0300
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On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:23 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
>  > kbuild allows building outside the source tree. this is 
> > useful when building multiple configs (such as privileged and 
> > unprivileged domains).
> > this patch unbreaks this feature for xen-linux.
> 
> Is this all that's required? 

works for me (tm) - builds a kernel both in the source directory and
outside.

> At one point we were using relative
> symlinks to link files from arch i386 and x86_64 into arch xen at build
> time. Has this has already been fixed to absoloute symlinks?

the patch changes the relative symlinks into absolute symlinks, but
maybe I missed something.

> 
> BTW, this is fot the "O=" syntax, right?
> 

yes.

> Ian

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