Re: [PATCH] i386 arch subdivision into machine types for 2.5.8

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:46:09 -0700 (PDT), 
Patrick Mochel <[e-mail]> wrote:
>One issue that I encountered along the way was arch/i386/kernel/Makefile. 
>I found that you can't easily build multiple targets in the same 
>directory, and have dependencies for one target in subdirectories. 
>Typically, target objects have one or the other. 
>
>In order to make this work, I had to do:
>
>-all: kernel.o head.o init_task.o
>+all: first_rule kernel.o head.o init_task.o
>
>...
>
>+kernel-subdir-$(CONFIG_PCI)    += pci
>+subdir-y                       := $(kernel-subdir-y)
>+obj-y                          += $(foreach dir,$(subdir-y),$(dir)/$(dir).o)
>
>
>The last part is decent, but the explicit dependency on the first_rule 
>target is kinda gross. Is there a better way to do this? Will kbuild 2.5 
>make this nicer?

Much nicer.

arch/i386/kernel/Makefile.in

link_subdirs(pci ...)
select(head.o init_task.o)

arch/i386/kernel/pci/Makefile.in

select(foo.o bar.o)