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

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:20:36PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Zack Weinberg writes:
> 
> > > I've copied the dependencies in all other language Make-lang.in's
> > > for this.
> > 
> > Other languages are not allowed to use GNU make features.
> 
> I suppose if we can easily get away with not using GNU make features, we
> should do so?  Geert, how should we handle this for ada?

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).

zw
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