[PATCH 3/3] width data generation script

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Mar 2 19:44:00 GMT 2018


Am 02.03.2018 um 15:14 schrieb Hans-Bernhard Bröker:
> Am 27.02.2018 um 23:30 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>> Also I have no idea how you'd like the generation to be invoked, e.g. 
>> `make data` in the ctype source directory, the libc source directory, 
>> a target directory, whatever. Please state your preference.
>
> Optimally: neither.  This should happen automatically when needed, not 
> just by manual trigger.  Otherwise there would not really be much 
> point putting this in the Makefile at all.
Thanks but this is in contrast to Corinna's advice, today and on 4.12.2017:

> ... keeping the tables
> in the repo and manually calling the generation targets sounds right to me.
> Only maintainers (or interested parties) need to do this once in a while.
So I think I'll follow that approach.
Thomas



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