Re: arch/xen is a bad idea

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 01:08:05 EST


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not convinced that maintaining xen/i386 in its current form
> > > is going to be as hard as Andi thinks. We already share many
> > > files unmodified from i386.
> >
> > How are they shared? Inclusion, symlinks, makefile references or
>
> The makefile creates symlinks.

That's deprecated because it breaks with separate objdirs (make O=/other/dir)
See the x86-64 makefiles on how to do it properly.

-Andi
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