Experimental Physics and
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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:07:33 -0600

Hi Michael,

On Thursday 16 December 2010 17:34:21 Davidsaver, Michael wrote:
>
> Unless I'm missing something doesn't moving the extra rules before the
> include of configure/RULES mean that 'all' will no longer be the default
> target?  I tried a build and it seems to work, but I'm not quite sure
> why.  I see that RULES_ARCHS and O.$(T_A)/Makefile use 'all' explicitly,
> but don't see how the 'all' target from RULES_ARCHS gets invoked?

I haven't moved the rules before that include, they are now defined in the 
four libCom/*/RULES files I added which get pulled in *after* configure/RULES, 
see libCom/Makefile for details.  It would have been nice to put them in the 
Makefile fragments, but I couldn't for exactly that reason.

> > The
> > disadvantage is that we would lose the ability to type 'make' in any
> > source directory
>
> Personally I don't see this as a serious disadvantage.

I don't think it's a major problem, I was just pointing it out so nobody could 
complain about it later.  If you try to run make in those directories you just 
get this, which is acceptable IMHO:

tux% make
make: *** No targets.  Stop.

>From your other message, I think you will also have to move alarmString.h from 
dbStatic into libCom/misc.  Otherwise step 2 looks OK to me.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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