filesystem patch

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:04:53AM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:09:16PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> >> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:53:40PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:09:22PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote:
> >>>>> hi,
> >>>>> as i previously send it (i just update it and resend) i agree with dan's
> >>>>> comment so i remove params from mingw32_make.
> >>>>> devel branch is enough for this.
> >>>> ACK.
> >>> Although I'm still questioning why we need _mingw32_make at all ...
> >> to be able to use the same source (ie. mingw32-macros.mingw32) and have
> >> to edit it one place, for all helper scripts (ie. mingw32-configure
> >> mingw32-make).
> > 
> > No, no, I mean why do we need a make macro or script at all?
> > 
> > The GNU coding standards define that this will work in all circumstances:
> > 
> >   ./configure --lots-of-options
> >   make
> > 
> > where options on the ./configure command line are turned into defaults
> > for make.
> 
> suppose you make some cross compilation development. everywhere you put
> %{_mingw32_make} into the spec file but wouldn't like to always run it
> through rpmbuild you can use mingw32-make in the working directory.

No, I don't mean this.  Why don't we remove both the _mingw32_make
macro and the mingw32-make script?  Any usage of this macro/script
would be replaced by a simple 'make' command.

Rich.

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