handling "multi-part" source files

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri May 12 21:15:16 UTC 2006


On Friday 12 May 2006 7:21 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Let's see, chopping from your patch...
> >
> > Try svn 15074.  Where can we clean it up from here?
>
> there are several cumulative fixes that can be added little by little,
> but the next obvious one is to get rid of all of those references tio
> $(srcdir) and replace that with a single use of "vpath."  once you do
> that, a number of other cleanups become possible.
>
> would you like me to submit the appropriate vpath-related patch?

Sure, but bounce it off Bernhard please.  I'm all for it, I just dunno why it 
wasn't done that way to begin with.  (I've clawed my way up to being merely 
bad at makefiles, which is a distinct improvement but not an endorsement...)

> rday

Rob
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