[PATCH v7] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jun 8 16:19:00 GMT 2016


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?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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