Sven Luther writes:
 > 
 > No problem, i have been busy with other things too, and my motherboard
 > died on saturday, so i could not do much work this WE. 

I'm sorry to hear that. 

 > 
 > >  > Also, would your new SDK still use a fixed path or should it be possible
 > >  > to install it anywhere ?
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > Fixed path? I have not looked at the old SDK, but my plan is to
 > > have it like the build tree so you should be able to put it anywhere.
 > 
 > Well, once you build and install the SDK, the PROJECTROOT gets expanded
 > in the Imakefiles/Makefiles, and it has problem during the build phase
 > if you moved it, since it tries to erase files in the old location, for
 > which it may not have the rights. I was able to override this behavior
 > by calling make wile overriding one of the make variables, i forgot
 > which one right now, but i think it was something like USRINCDIR or
 > something such.
 > 
 > Ideally it would be easy to build in any place, possibly not as root,
 > and then to be able to install as root, and with the install path
 > accepting the $(DESTDIR) prefix, so the drivers can be installed into a
 > package.
 > 

My plan is to create a self-contained build environment which does
not use any absolute paths but builds the stuff in directories
relative to its root directory - much like the full build does.

Egbert.
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