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Re: [PATCH v7] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Cc: Martin Galvan <martin dot galvan at tallertechnologies dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at sourceware dot org>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:19:28 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> It is quite a standard practice in glibc to generate files in the
> source directory (similar to the configure script from configure.ac)
> if the file is going to be mostly unchanged, which is true for your
No, that's only if
(a) it's required in order to run configure; or
(b) it involves build tools that are not otherwise required in the build
process.
And it can only be done if the file has no system dependencies. Is that
the case here?
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com