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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 03:51:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I hate your patch.
> 
> I'd rather see "Rules.make" just base itself entirely off the new-style
> Makefiles, and have it use "$(obj-y)" instead of O_OBJS etc.
> 
> Then, _old_style Makefiles could be fixed up by doing a
> 
> 	include Compat.make

That can't be done.
Old-style Makefiles are playing dirty tricks with defining
L_TARGET and then using O_TARGET for linking some onjects into
an intermediate object.

But the patch I have proposed is _not_ a resend of that old patch.
Instead this is a separate Makefile.inc that does not include the
old Rules.make - because it needs to do the different handling of
symtab objects - and btw it gets simpler because much of the Rule.make
logic is similar to the list-style makefiles.

So Rule.make would only be for the old-style Makefiles that should be
killed as fast as possible.

	Christoph

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