From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:53:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Makefile: move "Platform specific tweaks" above LIB_{H,OBJS}
Message-ID: <20101114175328.GG26459@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20101114172331.GA26459@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>> In the ab/i18n series I only want to build gettext.o (by adding it to
>> LIB_OBJS) if NO_GETTEXT is unset. It's not possible to do that without
>> an ugly hack if we haven't applied our platform specific tweaks before
>> LIB_{H,OBJS} gets assigned to.
>> 
>> See <201008140002.40587.j6t@kdbg.org> (subject: "[PATCH] Do not build
>> i18n on Windows.") for Johannes's original report, and my follow-up in
>> <AANLkTiku5R+idX-C8f0AcCikBLmfEb5ZEhdft+CSRzU0@mail.gmail.com> where I
>> suggested that the problem be solved in the manner of this patch.
>
> This doesn't motivate the patch all all to me.

Erm, sorry for the gibberish.  For "all all", please read "at all"
or "clearly enough".

Jonathan
who ought to slow down his replies; please feel free to point
out when I send nonsense like this so I can see when the rate-limiting
is working :)