Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 3/3] Makefile: support building from subdirectories

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 08:16:48 -0700

On Wed,  3 Jul 2024 15:15:21 +0200
Przemek Kitszel <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Support building also from subdirectories, like: `make -C devlink` or
> `cd devlink; make`.
> 
> Extract common defines and include flags to a new file (common.mk) which
> will be included from subdir makefiles via the generated config.mk file.
> 
> Note that the current, toplevel-issued, `make` still works as before.
> Note that `./configure && make` is still required once after the fresh
> checkout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <[email-masked]>

Not sure if this really needed, it impacts more than devlink.