Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] tools/build: change order of config/Tools.mk inclusion

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> On 05/18/12 15:30, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> > Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] tools/build: change order of 
> > config/Tools.mk inclusion"):
> > > Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > > I know that.  But given that the configure is just for the tools
> > > > build, should we honour PREFIX from Config.mk (and ./.config or
> > > > command line arguments) or from ./configure ?
> > > I think the one from configure, since we have a configure script, better
> > > make use of it, that is what users expect.
> > I guess so.
> >
> > > I will resend this patch with the above changes to config/Linux.mk,
> > > is that ok?
> > I don't think prefixing paths in /var with PREFIX is ever right.
> > Overriding it in Linux.mk seems like a band-aid.
>
> One suggestion:
>
> Move all path variables out of config/*.mk and let configure generate
> a config/paths.mk.
What should we do about this? Should I try to fix 
StdGNU.mk/Linux.mk/NetBSD.mk or are we going to move all paths from 
config/*.mk and put them in a single file generated by configure?

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