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

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  bk> "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.  

  bk> I may be wrong, but my experience tells me that it is hard to make
  bk> a build system build in a separate directory unless it was design
  bk> with this in mind.  I would imagine it is close to impossible if
  bk> you are not allowed to modify it.

Yes, Boris is correct.

If you don't have the ability to change the makefiles and they're not
set up with remote building in mind, then your only option is to use
something like a symlink farm.

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