Re: [LTP] subdir make with LTP

[Mike F. <va...@ge...>]

On Saturday 04 July 2009 03:39:08 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi Mike, Nate, and Subrata,
>     Although some people may be unhappy with this change, I was
> thinking of `breaking' subdirectory based make operations with LTP as
> this would overcomplicate the make system logic a great deal with a
> bunch of cookie cutter logic that will grow stale and become a pain to
> maintain.
>     Is this something that would be a desired feature moving forward
> or something we can official drop?
>     Subdir based Make would still function by specifying srcdir= on
> the command line, but doing a bare command like the following:
>
>     cd testcases/kernel/syscalls && make all
>
>     would fail.

that would annoy me greatly as this is my primary mode of ltp usage
-mike