Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:14:15PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> Would it be OK if we have arch/x86_64/boot present and have stub Makefiles
>>> in all directories?
>>> If thats OK I can try to cook up something.
>>>
>> That's certainly acceptable as an interrim solution. The right thing
>> can wait for the x86 merge, probably.
>
> The general issue with current infrastructure is that we do not
> honour $(src) and $(obj) in the implicit rules.
> So I added these.
>
> Then next problem is how to set src to the correct value.
> For arch/x86_64/boot I could just set it in the make invocation.
> For directories below boot/ I do not know yet how to do it.
>
> With patch below and with a one line Makefile in
> x86_64/boot thet just included arch/i386/boot/Makefile
> I could compile the boot directory.
> So not a full solution yet but on the right track.
>
FWIW, in the meantime I'm making forward progress simply by symlinking
arch/x86_64/boot -> ../../i386/boot. Works great, but I don't think
symlinks in the tarball are accepted, and if it's dynamically generated
it would break O=.
-hpa
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