Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > If I remember correctly Peter Memishian has looked at this a little and 
>  > came up with the idea of first building "stuff" libraries based on the 
>  > linker mapfiles on a first pass.  The build would then run as normal and 
>  > use the proto area stub libs.
>
> Right.  I think Jonathan explored this and found that we'd need to do some
> additional work to handle OBJT symbols.
>
> Note that my original interest in this was twofold: to simplify ON's
> Makefiles so that we don't have to track cross-library dependencies, and
> to allow full parallelism during builds of usr/src/lib.
>
>   

Those are both likely to be very, very nice benefits.  It deserves more
investigation, I think.  Not sure how soon I can get to it, as I'm more
interested in the kernel ATM.

    -- Garrett

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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