Re: PATCH - kbuild documentation.

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 19:36:28 EST


Neil Brown writes:
> + An example for libraries from drivers/acorn/scsi/Makefile:

This is no longer true; you'll have to find another example.

> + As ordering is not so important in libraries, this still uses
> + LX_OBJS and MX_OBJS, though (presumably) it could be changed to
> + use MIX_OBJS as follows:
> +
> + active-objs := $(sort $(obj-y) $(obj-m))
> + L_OBJS := $(obj-y)
> + M_OBJS := $(obj-m)
> + MIX_OBJS := $(filter $(export-objs), $(active-objs))
> +
> + which is clearly shorted and arguably clearer.

What if you have

obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o foobar.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BAR) += bar.o foobar.o

and CONFIG_FOO=y and CONFIG_BAR=m? What about CONFIG_FOO=y and
CONFIG_BAR=y? Do we still support this method? If not, what is the
recommended way of doing this sort of stuff?
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