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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:12:57 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH CRDA] Introduce separate HOST and TARGET compilation
	steps.
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@bigfootnetworks.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Jon Loeliger<jdl@bigfootnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 08:59 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 16:29 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
>> > The regdbdump tool is really a host executable that is used
>> > during the build process.  It could also be installed and
>> > used on the target, but two separate compilations are needed
>> > to achieve that goal.
>> >
>> > Currently, regdbdump is only built for the target, and thus
>> > cross-compilation of the tool is really feasible without
>> > this patch (or one like it).
>>
>> I don't think John is the correct addressee, Luis maintains this still,
>
> Oh!  Sorry!
>
>> afaik. The only thing I'm not sure about is the separation into host/
>> and target/,
>
> Do you have another suggestion?  Another approach would be to
> leave the "target" stuff in the top-level directory straight up,
> and bury the build of the host "tools" in a sub-directory?

As Pavel suggested can you split your work into separate patches? You
seem to do more than one thing and this patch is pretty large as is.

  Luis