Re: compiling the kernel in another directory, and using VPATH

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Boris Kolpackov wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >   this whole process seems like such an obvious project that i'm assuming 
> > *someone*'s done it before.  
> 
> I may be wrong, but my experience tells me that it is hard to make a build 
> system build in a separate directory unless it was design with this in mind.
> I would imagine it is close to impossible if you are not allowed to modify it.

i had assumed as much, so trying this with the 2.4 kernel is not going to 
work.  with the 2.6 kernel, it's a piece of cake since the makefile 
supports a single option to do the build in another directory.

thanks.

rday