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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:52:18 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] list-style makefile boilerplate without reordering
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 09:03:23AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>]
> > +
> > +# include a local makefile, if present
> > +-include Makefile.local
> 
> Why?

someone on lkml suggested it. It will not hurt but help some people.

>
> [all the other changes]
>

If have just rewritten Rules.make to not reorder objects and take input
in list-style format.  The big makefile rewrite should happen in 2.5, IMHO.

	Christoph

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