On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 rebuiI am not sure about uclinux* 
> > targetsld 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.
>

I agree with you Mike, but I am curious to see what Garrett has,
specially if those cleanups are generic

>  >    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.
>

The question basically boils down to -- can we use GNU make specific
features? My answer would be "Yes"

>  >    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

Balbir

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