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Subject: Re: [patch] NUMAQ subarchification
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 20:53, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> I think VPATH has never been meant to be used for anything like this, it 
> could be make to work, though it would interfere with the separate src/obj 
> thing. But I don't think it's a good idea, we'll have object files 
> magically appear without any visible source file, that's just too obscure.

Well...There is a slightly different solution.

What if the summit/numaq setup.c simply contained 

#include "../mach-default/setup.c"

?

Not that I like doing this, but it solves the "magic" appearace of the
object file and it's perfectly clear to anyone editing the file where it
really comes from.

James


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