[PATCH] Remove extraneous cruft from end of libbb/Makefile.in

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 5:32 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > I fail to see the benefit of your previous patch to add vpath.
> > Doesn't this just make the build (slightly) slower since you removed
> > the explicit path to the source? It sounds like with your proposed
> > patch, make would have to iterate over a list (of several vpath's)
> > instead of the explicit path..
>
> whether or not it makes the build slightly slower is, IMHO, not
> relevant.  it's a question of clean(er) design.  i've never been a fan
> of hard-coding ${SRCDIR} into every instance of a source file
> dependency -- that's precisely the thing "vpath" is designed to avoid.

And having said that I'd stay out...

Try benchmarking to see if the difference is actually noticeable.

Rob
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