Re: Generation of *.s files from *.S files in kbuild

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 00:03:03 EST


On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:37:43AM +1000, Benno wrote:
>
> The solution is fairly striaght forward -- just change the suffixes,
> the problem is exactly how to change them. I would propose changing it
> such that was stick with "vmlinux.lds.S" and have it generate "vmlinux.lds"
>
> This would require the fewest changes to implement, just
> 1/ change %.s %.S rule to %.lds %.lds.S
> 2/ change the link flags from "-T vmlinux.lds.s" -> "-T vmlinux.lds"

I agree with this approach, and see no defencies.

Care to send two patches.
One that do what you suggest for i386, and another that cover the rest
of the architectures?

Sam
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