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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Il 04/06/2012 00:57, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>
>> As before, I dislike the use of the filename "Makefile" for files that
>> are not self-contained. If make is called from that deep directory, it
>> leads to undefined results. Either we must make sure through some clever
>> ifeq'ery and a local "all" target that such an attempt fails, or better
>> use a filename that is recognized by editors as Makefile syntax but not
>> used by make without explicit -f, e.g., foo.mak.
> 
> Linux does this.  I think it's expected behavior at this point.  In the
> long term, we should either move to kconfig or autoconf so trying to act
> like one of the two seems like a good idea to me.

This is not really necessary; we won't really move to kbuild anytime.  I
don't really like the magic Makefiles and did it only because Linux does
this.

Naming files Makefile.objs would make just as much sense.

Paolo