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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:39:46PM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:

> > How now can I build the oprofile.o target from two directories ?
> 
> I see in the patch you mailed later that you got it figured out already, 
> using a relative path.
> And yeah, it's not particularly beautiful. But I do not see any nice and 
> easy way, either.

OK. If you say that the vpath support is troublesome, I will believe
you :)

> What would help a lot, of course, would be to split this 
> into two modules, one generic one, one arch-specific one. Have you 
> considered doing that?

I think I said to you before that implementing a runtime solution to a
build time problem is a little bizarre IMHO. I would *much* rather have
4 lines of slightly icky Makefile than complicate *any* runtime code.

I suppose it would not be much more complicated than a request_module()
inside oprofile_init(), but it's still more code for next-to-zero
benefit ...

regards
john
-- 
"I will eat a rubber tire to the music of The Flight of the Bumblebee"
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