Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-05-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kai Germaschewski] > However, I don't think it's hard to verify that my patch works as > well, it's about ten lines added to Rules.make. It's particularly > easy to verify that it doesn't change behavior for objects listed in > $(list-multi) at all. Yes, we can say this, but people are right

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-05-01 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 1 May 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: > > > > The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing > > 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for > > 2.5, including the case you identified here. It struck me as a

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-05-01 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Tue, 1 May 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for 2.5, including the case you identified here. It struck me as a decent

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-05-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Kai Germaschewski] However, I don't think it's hard to verify that my patch works as well, it's about ten lines added to Rules.make. It's particularly easy to verify that it doesn't change behavior for objects listed in $(list-multi) at all. Yes, we can say this, but people are right to

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 01:31:20 +0200, "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: >> The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing >> 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for >> 2.5 > >We will have to live with 2.4

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: > > The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing > 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for > 2.5, including the case you identified here. It struck me as a decent > change but for no benefit and, given that the

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 00:43:42 +0200 (CEST), Kai Germaschewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly >zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is >totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good

[PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Kai Germaschewski
I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good (that's what I'd prefer :), well, maybe I'll get some feedback this time. SHORT VERSION:

[PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Kai Germaschewski
I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good (that's what I'd prefer :), well, maybe I'll get some feedback this time. SHORT VERSION:

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 00:43:42 +0200 (CEST), Kai Germaschewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this to the kbuild list about a week ago, and I received exactly zero replies, so I'm posting to l-k now. This may mean that the idea is totally stupid (but I'd like to know) or unquestionably good

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for 2.5, including the case you identified here. It struck me as a decent change but for no benefit and, given that the 2.4

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH] automatic multi-part link rules (fwd)

2001-04-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 1 May 2001 01:31:20 +0200, J . A . Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05.01 Keith Owens wrote: The patch appears to work but is it worth applying now? The existing 2.4 rules work fine and the entire kbuild system will be rewritten for 2.5 We will have to live with 2.4 until 2.6,