Re: Updated Makeconfig patch

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:

|> -# If config.make exists, the source directory was configured,
|> -# so don't try to be clever and find another directory to build in.
|> -ifneq (,$(wildcard $(..)config.make))
|> -ARCH =
|> -machine =
|> -else	# Not configured.
|> -ifndef ARCH
|> -ifdef machine
|> -ARCH = $(machine)
|> -endif # machine
|> -endif # ARCH
|> -endif # config.make
|> -
|> -# Directory for object files and libc.a.  If this is not defined, the
|> -# object files live in the subdirectories where their sources live, and
|> -# libc.a lives in the parent directory (this probably doesn't work any
|> -# more).
|> -ifdef ARCH
|> -ifeq ($(filter /%,$(ARCH)),)
|> -objdir := $(..)$(ARCH)
|> -else
|> -objdir = $(ARCH)
|> -endif
|> -endif


What's the point in making it harder to build the library?

Andreas.

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