From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild devel <kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:50:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E5CA4D.3060106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709110040.41605.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>> The below are the minimal clean-up - a bit more could be done.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Looks good in principle. My only suggestion would be to name it something
> differently than vdir. I know that's what GNU make calls it, but it's still
> pretty cryptic. How about just fallback-dir ?
>
> Also what would be nice (I don't know if it's doable in make) would
> be a separate variable (e.g. other-obj-... := ) that contains the fallback
> names and that is double checked against the fallback directory. That
> would document it clearly what's going on. Failing that stuffing
> them into a comment would be good at least.
>
<nitpick>
Actually make calls it VPATH, not vdir.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 19:11 [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64 Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-10 19:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-10 19:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-10 20:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-10 20:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-10 22:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-10 22:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-11 6:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-11 19:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
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