Messages in this thread | | | From | "Riley Williams" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] kbuild: Document lib-y | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:16:15 +0100 |
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Hi Sam.
> Hi Linus, documentation for the newly added lib-y.
Minor grammatical tweaks to the same...
> ===== Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt 1.8 vs edited ===== > --- 1.8/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt Sun Mar 16 06:52:28 2003 > +++ edited/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt Sun Jun 8 > @@ -214,20 +214,33 @@ > modules exporting symbols. > See also Documentation/modules.txt. > > ---- 3.5 Library file goals - L_TARGET > +--- 3.5 Library file goals - lib-y > > - Instead of building a built-in.o file, you may also > - build an archive which again contains objects listed in $(obj-y). > - This is normally not necessary and only used in lib/ and > - arch/$(ARCH)/lib directories. > - Only the name lib.a is allowed. > + Objects listed with obj-* is used for modules or ^^ That should be "are" ?
> + are combined in a built-in.o for that specific directory. ^^^ That shouldn't be there.
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