[coyotos-dev] Build tree input wanted

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:06 -0800, Charles Landau wrote:
> >Also, I'm not clear whether you intend that arch-neutral files should
> >NOT go in these subdirectories. If they do not, it invites the
> >likelihood that output from one target build will be incorrectly used by
> >the next target build, with the result that builds might become
> >non-reproducible or build errors might go undiscovered.
> 
> Arch-neutral files should go into these subdirectories, for the 
> reason you mention, but for historical reasons they do not currently.

If that is the case, then it is definitely better to rotate the target
names to the front. This is more compatible with existing build
strategies, and the lib/ARCH subdirectory convention is already claimed
for other purposes on targets that support multiple instruction sets.

shap