On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>    1. The make process isn't multiple arch/target friendly, i.e. you
>    build once for x86 and you have to rebuild for ia64, ppc64, etc and
> after the build capture all of the compiled binaries using some
> intermediary method.

multi-arch itself by definition is limiting.  adding any sort of magic in this 
direction is just bloat.  i'd focus on out-of-tree building as that would 
address any sort of random stuff people want to do.

>    2. Assuming that the user has gmake (which they should if they plan on
>    working with LTP and Linux), there are a number of simplifications that
> can be made to the Makefiles to allow for simpler variable and make target
> definition.

the gmake requirement has been unwritten so far ... might as well codify the 
requirement and stop dancing around the issue.

>    3. The uclinux* make targets could be removed in favor of
>    conditionally defined global targets.

this is just a silly target.  i'd punt it.
-mike

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