From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KQPjN-00059Y-1A for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQPjK-00054U-Lb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQPjJ-00052P-MZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54212 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQPjJ-00051t-HE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:49 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:28055) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQPjJ-0005YO-2N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:49 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 05 Aug 2008 12:49:48 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF479618F22 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:49:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <4897FA04.1060001@nic.fi> References: <20080803192839.GA12627@thorin> <20080803193027.GA12766@thorin> <1217825941.10989.26.camel@dv> <4897FA04.1060001@nic.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:49:46 -0400 Message-Id: <1217954986.2722.4.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:49:51 -0000 On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every > > time. One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very > > out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all. I cannot even test it > > (well, I haven't tries hard). > > If sparc64 support is out of date and the maintainer is nowhere to be > seen then I think you can put that support to graveyard until someone > comes up to update it. Putting all common stuff to every platform to > common.rmk is a good way and the only way (in my opinion) to go forward. OK, then there is an issue that it doesn't work if done naively. Either genmk.rb should sort statements or we need some makefile magic (recursively expanded variables, perhaps) that would be transparent to genmk.rb. Maybe we need both. We may want to have another common file for all ieee1275 pratforms. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin