[PATCH 1/3] Makefile: fix "version.h" build for cross-compiling

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 23:57:40 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 17:12 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 17:09, Brian Norris wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> i dont think it's just a matter of "diff build dir for diff
> >> toolchains, so common version.h is ok".  it's a matter of "building
> >> out of tree should build out of tree".
> >
> > OK, but what is the point of in- vs. out-of-tree? So that we can have
> > a readonly source directory where the mtd-utils code stays?
> 
> this one imo, but maybe Artem can speak to the origins (which predate
> my contributions)

Sorry, I do not know about the origins, I came into MTD area when most
of the things have been already implemented and worked.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy




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