From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl1-x629.google.com (mail-pl1-x629.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::629]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD1FD3858D28 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2023 07:25:44 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org BD1FD3858D28 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gmail.com Received: by mail-pl1-x629.google.com with SMTP id c18so23534105ple.11 for ; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:25:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; t=1680333944; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=nR6QMyrrcM6XLcSRLwJIUOWk0bCY5l1D63sPUzrQgiI=; b=GXRzNoxbo+K3IWBZm6klt1FhGQ2m7CQ3VmYzxA5fptbD1r3uauT1a4He1t1M9PhZGp 8RpgLAzPh+1pb35UTSdZTmSkppjhhiPDihFcB1QZlVy8pJT1jr1kLrrIwXtqhVUXSAnI /L3udBa7l0LHPj7fMiMGO4IqnsBesUhbqB3VA9S4LyBccRKmsROWJuaO+/PIKLs0MhCE axJOxJuzQDs3HJvMcCJ2EgkjkgcIOoda8P5iRFREeSKlvVNIzlqpqtTMzEsBxF83bxtB yjl/e/maiFoU+J5Hh0pIOl4wLp4n3JZVoGbrgVHiyjcGyq6eXCA15A9emr/plyV+YGvL KuIA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1680333944; h=in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references:message-id :subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=nR6QMyrrcM6XLcSRLwJIUOWk0bCY5l1D63sPUzrQgiI=; b=kQ7TydQS/5+awO8KF5+QFS3XpKBcU8SWKDUBawLZ5mZ2imo8u5n3tawG+yb9T67O9K msfTAINwOI2cN1NXSazslosiLcSKlEFaHpwt2rNCz7MjWxx9Pr8UPe92lqPrKcERzuMb pDZ2qLRioL/P9Jz/Qv+U5YVKX66YGyIEnrv+bKMgNgSXNUH3vy/jtH5iaUCJoMsGcnO3 2hL7y/LK50v+jhoBbUkRfCAZnVcaAKygVlSbYZzCaFw4kA+KfVRuhKJUVH1ctw921kdn xMYcdrV6ySk4JHTTQF4U4w6I5lkwgNmFlnnyuAoozbVioD94cgNffrTCFT6POvnbuD/C o6dA== X-Gm-Message-State: AAQBX9eEagUuvTk2Xz0zd56etfP1q5nik2r65k+1tL2NsOpcVeZtPHV8 gXCnssYkULf4hOheWY/+Rcg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AKy350YJDElV6FfnRHCez4eOvLmDW6AEU/R8KMLrKkYrBn92ze9N8Og5gyKjTjA0R60QC+W3HZpfaQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:903:28c5:b0:1a2:9183:a499 with SMTP id kv5-20020a17090328c500b001a29183a499mr6856877plb.34.1680333943678; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squeak.grove.modra.org ([2406:3400:51d:8cc0:33d4:e29f:4233:3e59]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t12-20020a170902a5cc00b001a04027e0e0sm2675515plq.258.2023.04.01.00.25.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:25:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squeak.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D48B61142C97; Sat, 1 Apr 2023 17:55:40 +1030 (ACDT) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 17:55:40 +1030 From: Alan Modra To: Jan Beulich Cc: Binutils , Nick Clifton Subject: Re: [PATCH] bfd+ld: when / whether to generate .c files Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3027.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 04:19:21PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > Having been irritated by seeing bfd/elf{32,64}-aarch64.c to be re- > generated in x86-only builds, I came across 769a27ade588 ("Re: bfd > BLD-POTFILES.in dependencies"). I think this went slightly too far, as Fair enough. > outside of maintainer mode dependencies will cause the subset of files > to be (re-)generated which are actually needed for the build. > Generating them all is only needed when wanting to update certain files > under bfd/po/, i.e. in maintainer mode. > > In the course of looking around in an attempt to try to understand how > things are meant to work, I further noticed that ld has got things > slightly wrong too: BLD-POTFILES.in depending on $(BLD_POTFILES) isn't > quite right (the output doesn't change when any of the enumerated files > changes; it's the mere presence which matters); like in bfd it looks > like we would better extend BUILT_SOURCES accordingly. Yes, that looks good. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM