Re: Unfortunate infinite make recursion

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Sep 23 2007 - 02:02:20 EST


> > Please Oleg.
> > You know very well that most people will not have their kernel src RO.
>
> Sure, if it will be not comfortable.
>
> But if kbuild deals with this transparently, it must be OK. Brokenness
> due to binutils, kbuild, root user bugs won't garbage source. Only thing
> to ask from experienced users *and* kernel developers, is
> `useradd kbuild`, everything else will not bother anybody.
Better would be to fix the bugs where we today clobber the sources.
Care to point out the exact cases you see.

Sam
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