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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:22:25 +0200
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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
...
> meooowww!  :-)  but at the risk of dragging this even further
> off-topic, i am *constantly* asked by people how to set up makefiles
> for their software project, and what would be nice is a small
> collection of examples of a makefile (or makefiles) done *right*.  as
> in, properly recursive, supports cross-compiling without having to
> remove your left nad, etc, etc.
...

Please read the essay "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"
(http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/).

Bart.