Add support for a saving build objects in a separate directory.
Modifications are based on the linux kernel approach and
support two use cases:

  1) Add O= to the make command line
  'make O=/tmp/build all'

  2) Set environement variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location
  'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
  'make'

The second approach can also be used with a MAKEALL script
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'./MAKEALL'

Command line 'O=' setting overrides BUILD_DIR environent variable.

When none of the above methods is used the local build is performed and
the object files are placed in the source directory.
diff --git a/board/mpl/pati/Makefile b/board/mpl/pati/Makefile
index 1a9ce12..c469e3f 100644
--- a/board/mpl/pati/Makefile
+++ b/board/mpl/pati/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
-# (C) Copyright 2001	Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de
-#
+# (C) Copyright 2001-2006
+# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de
 #
 # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
 # project.
@@ -22,14 +22,20 @@
 #
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/config.mk
+ifneq ($(OBJTREE),$(SRCTREE))
+$(shell mkdir -p $(obj)../common)
+endif
 
-LIB	= lib$(BOARD).a
+LIB	= $(obj)lib$(BOARD).a
 
-OBJS	:=  pati.o ../common/flash.o ../common/memtst.o cmd_pati.o ../common/common_util.o
+COBJS	:=  pati.o ../common/flash.o ../common/memtst.o cmd_pati.o ../common/common_util.o
 #### cmd_pati.o
-SOBJS	:=
 
-$(LIB):	$(OBJS)
+SRCS	:= $(SOBJS:.o=.S) $(COBJS:.o=.c)
+OBJS	:= $(addprefix $(obj),$(COBJS))
+SOBJS	:= $(addprefix $(obj),$(SOBJS))
+
+$(LIB):	$(obj).depend $(OBJS)
 	$(AR) crv $@ $(OBJS)
 
 clean:
@@ -40,9 +46,9 @@
 
 #########################################################################
 
-.depend:	Makefile $(SOBJS:.o=.S) $(OBJS:.o=.c)
-		$(CC) -M $(CPPFLAGS) $(SOBJS:.o=.S) $(OBJS:.o=.c) > $@
+# defines $(obj).depend target
+include $(SRCTREE)/rules.mk
 
--include .depend
+sinclude $(obj).depend
 
 #########################################################################