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 t

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 de

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 (t