Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] per-directory Makefile snippets, limit vpath abuse

[Lluís Vilanova]

Paolo Bonzini writes:

> Il 04/06/2012 00:57, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> As before, I dislike the use of the filename "Makefile" for files that
>>> are not self-contained. If make is called from that deep directory, it
>>> leads to undefined results. Either we must make sure through some clever
>>> ifeq'ery and a local "all" target that such an attempt fails, or better
>>> use a filename that is recognized by editors as Makefile syntax but not
>>> used by make without explicit -f, e.g., foo.mak.
>> 
>> Linux does this.  I think it's expected behavior at this point.  In the
>> long term, we should either move to kconfig or autoconf so trying to act
>> like one of the two seems like a good idea to me.

> This is not really necessary; we won't really move to kbuild anytime.  I
> don't really like the magic Makefiles and did it only because Linux does
> this.

> Naming files Makefile.objs would make just as much sense.

Naming them as *.mak makes some common editors interpret the file as a makefile
(e.g., vim and emacs), while *.objs brings no meaning to these two.


Lluis

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