Re: [PATCH 07/18] x86 vDSO: vdso32 build

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:10:15PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > +# This makes sure the $(obj) subdirectory exists even though vdso32/
> > > +# is not a kbuild sub-make subdirectory.
> > > +override obj-dirs = $(dir $(obj)) $(obj)/vdso32/
> > 
> > Should we teach kbuild to create dirs specified in targets?
> > Or we could 'fix' it so you do not need the override.
> 
> Something cleaner would be nice, yes.  I'll leave it to you to decide.

OK - if I come up with something smart I will convert the vdso stuff.

> 
> > use "set -e; in front of this shell script to bail out early
> > in case of errors.
> 
> Back when I knew something about make, all commands ran with sh -ec.
> Ah, progress.  Anyway, the one you cited does not have any commands that
> aren't tested with && or if already.  set -e would have no effect.
I assume that if an error happened in a pipe set -e; would catch it.
But I did not check that - I normally just adds set -e; without much thought.

	Sam
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