On 18.12.2025 14:41, Anthony PERARD wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> It's not quite clear why for libelf and the emulator we use symlink-ing, >> while elsewhere we use vpath. Do so for these two as well, thus also >> eliminating the need for custom -iquote options and custom cleaning. > > It was an attempt to rework the "tools/" makefiles to be non-recursive, > via the use of subdirmk. `vpath` wouldn't have worked in that > configuration as stated in the commit introducing the symlink.
Hmm, I see it says so, yet it says nothing as to why. > But I never managed to finish this conversion. Plus the symlinking also comes with downsides. They may get in the way of moving build and/or source trees, for example. (Not that the tools/ subtree would support out-of-tree builds yet, but still.) Jan
