Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:37 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> With this, AFLAGS would apply to building when building the
> prerequisites of header.o too, which you don't want
> 
> The make manual says:
> 
>   "when you define a target-specific variable that variable value is
>    also in effect for all prerequisites of this target, and all their
>    prerequisites"

Ah yes, quite right.

I think given that subtleties of these kinds of variable definitions
it's probably clearer to stick with the header file way of doing things.
it's nice and straight forward.

Ian.
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