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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: what is the point of bfd/doc/ header generation rules
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 11:44:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yaj39XkNd0zO+yzF@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YahxOG+en3yQgw1y@squeak.grove.modra.org>

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On 02 Dec 2021 17:39, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> 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.

ok, but why is it in the doc/ dir to begin with ?  doesn't it make more
sense to move all of those rules/logic to the top-level Makefile.am ?
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 16:44 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
2021-12-02 16:44   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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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