Re: [PATCH]: Missing Sparc Implies

["David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft dot net>]

From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:41:43 -0800 (PST)

> > From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:47:08 -0800 (PST)
> > 
> > > I don't think ought to be necessary.  If it is, I'd like to fix the
> > > configure magic so it's not.  Those Implies files from the main source
> > > should cause those add-on directories to be searched too.
> > 
> > This doesn't happen in the top-level either, that's why we need
> > sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9b/Implies and friends
> > eventhough we have sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9b/Implies.
> 
> I'm not following you.  The main tree tree has
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9b/Implies already.
> Another one should not be required in the add-on too.
> The one would not be required either if we used sparcv9/sparcv9b instead.

I guess I don't understand how the "machine=" specification in the
configure scripts work...  They look like file path names that the
build machinery tries one by one like this:

machine=a/b/c/d

step 1) try $(foo)/a/b/c/d
step 2) try $(foo)/a/b/c
step 3) try $(foo)/a/b
step 4) try $(foo)/a

You seem to be suggesting that it works another way.