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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Makefile improvements and cleanups
- From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:54:22 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Makefile improvements and cleanups
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- References: <20161113034625.8237-1-simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
On Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:46:21 PM Simon Marchi wrote:
> The following patches contain a few improvements and cleanups to the gdb
> Makefile. The starting point is when I wondered why we had to write individual
> rules for each source file that is located in a subdirectory. I think it's
> unnecessary verbose, and those rules could be replaced with pattern rules.
> That's patch 2. Patch 1 is just a small change to use pattern rules instead
> of suffix rules.
>
> Patches 3 and 4 are cleanups of things that have slightly annoyed me for some
> time, and I thought now would be a good time to make those changes.
>
> Simon Marchi (4):
> Makefile: Replace old suffix rules with pattern rules
> Makefile: Replace explicit subdir rules with pattern rules
> Makefile: Flatten and sort file lists
> Normalize names of some source files
Are you still planning to push patch 4? I don't currently have any pending
patches to the files you have renamed though I do have pending MIPS patches
for FreeBSD which are new files (and if you are going to move forward with
this I might as well rename them to use the new style of names now).
--
John Baldwin