Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] scripts: introduce containerized builds

[Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>]

Hi Nicolas,

On 27/01/2026 9:13 pm, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 03:12:36PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> On 20/01/2026 14:54, Nicolas Schier wrote:
>>> Out-of-source builds do not work on my system with podman.  If this is
>>> expected, I think it would be great to mention that somewhere in the
>>> documentation.
>>
>> The v4 now mentions this and also includes a trick using bind-mount:
>>
>>    mkdir -p $HOME/tmp/my-kernel-build
>>    mkdir -p build
>>    sudo mount --bind $HOME/tmp/my-kernel-build build
>>    scripts/container -i kernel.org/gcc -- make mrproper
>>    scripts/container -i kernel.org/gcc -- make O=build defconfig
>>    scripts/container -i kernel.org/gcc -- make O=build -j$(nproc)
>>
>> Would this work for your use-case?  Directory names are entirely
>> arbitrary.  It's not ideal but might be good enough as a workaround
>> until this gets properly supported by the tool in a future version.
> 
> sorry for the long delay.  Yes, thanks for the follow-up!

Great!  Thank you for confirming.  It's now in linux-next.

Cheers,
Guillaume