Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: source dependencies cleanup? (fwd) | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 1996 23:02:02 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Yes it is. However, you can come up with other examples where this is not > the case. Consider developing a driver and I want to make sure it compiles > on the alpha, sparc, x86, ppc, and mips platforms. It would be a real pain > to do that now.
Its not that hard. Being able to stuff the objects elsewhere to the source would help a lot. Currently you need a set of source trees, a set of compilers and your drive symlinked across.
> This is an excellent idea, and I think it is something that needs to be > done. I don't see it as a replacement for what I was talking about though, > more of something else which needs to be improved.
There are interdependencies between sections of the system and thus configs overlap. Not a big problem but one to take care about.
Alan
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