Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:59:59 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre7 |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Russell King wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > > > LINK_FIRST is processed in the order it is specified, so a.o will be > > > linked before z.o when both are present. See the patch. > > > > So why don't you do the same thing for obj-y, then? > > > > Why can't you do > > > > LINK_FIRST=$(obj-y) > > > > and be done with it? > > Hmm, so why don't we just call it obj-y and be done with it? ;)
That was going to be my next question if somebody actually said "sure".
The question was rhetorical, since the way LINK_FIRST is implemented means that it has all the same problems that $(obj-y) has, and is hard to get right in the generic case (but you can get it trivially right for the subset case, like for USB).
Linus
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