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Re: 3.2 PATCH: Fully support parallel gnat1/gnatbind builds

Zack Weinberg writes:

> I just thought of a *good* reason to use ada/foo.o instead of VPATH:
> it prevents you from having name clashes with files in the parent
> directory (either in filesystem namespace, or in Make-rule namespace).

And in fact there is one: we have both gcc/final.c and gcc/ada/final.c ;-)

	Rainer
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