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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: what is the point of bfd/doc/ header generation rules
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 17:39:44 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YahxOG+en3yQgw1y@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YahSJrmT79Fdfwkz@vapier>

On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 11:57:10PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> bfd/doc/ has a few curious files that i can't seem to find docs on or any
> references to.  are they just uncommon maintainer-esque rules ?  or are
> they obsolete things that i can delete ?
> 
> specifically, what is the point of:
> $ cd bfd/doc/
> $ make libbfd.h libcoff.h bfd.h

See the headers rule in bfd/Makefile.am.  The above files are made in
bfd/doc when regenerating bfd/libbfd.h, bfd/libcoff.h, and
bfd/bfd-in2.h.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-02  4:57 Mike Frysinger
2021-12-02  7:09 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2021-12-02 16:44   ` Mike Frysinger
2021-12-02 21:38     ` Alan Modra
2021-12-03  5:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] bfd: move header updates up a directory Mike Frysinger
2021-12-03  5:33   ` [PATCH 2/2] bfd: unify header generation rules Mike Frysinger
2021-12-03  5:43     ` Mike Frysinger
2021-12-03 23:24       ` Alan Modra
2021-12-03 18:27   ` [PATCH 1/2] bfd: move header updates up a directory Tom Tromey
2021-12-04  3:11     ` Mike Frysinger
2021-12-04 18:21       ` Tom Tromey

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