bring mips*-linux back to a buildable state
Andreas Jaeger
aj@suse.de
Tue Jul 20 09:27:00 GMT 2004
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
> On Jul 19, 2004, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>>> These patches gets all 3 ABIs of mips64-linux to build and work again.
>
>> Can you send them separtly, so that it's easier to comment on them?
>
> As soon as syou get syscall-*.h to include sgidefs.h, you get a
> problem at install time if sgidefs.h happens to have been installed
> before: syscall-*.h is (re)built at install time, and, because of the
> include flags we had, it would end up with a dependency on sgidefs.h
> in the install tree. After installing the generated syscall-*.h file,
> we'd install a new copy of sgidefs.h, which would get a newer
> timestamp than the generated syscall-*.h, so we'd create it again,
> install it again, install sgidefs.h again. Wash, rinse and repeat
> indefinitely.
>
> The fix is to make sure syscall-*.h does not get sgidefs.h from the
> install tree.
>
> While at that, I noticed other syscall-*.h rules had been updated so
> as to sort the syscall names in the generated header file, so I did
> the same in the mips rules.
>
Ok, I'll commit,
Andreas
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