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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] build configuration

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] build configuration
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:19:47 -0600
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On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:18, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> For example, I don't think using GNU make's wildcards has worked well 
> for working out what files to build, as we end up needing gross 
> patsubst's to remove the files that are not to be included in the 
> current build. Just explicitly listing the files to build would be 
> better imo. If we could do that and also have Linux-style OBJ-<foo> 
> style then that would be nice.
> 
> Do you want to cook up some tentative patches? Small increments are 
> good as build systems tend to be fragile beasts, and ours is no 
> exception. :-)

Absolutely. I just wanted to make sure this approach made sense to everybody 
before I started... :)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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