Re: [PATCH 1/4] Makefile: move "Platform specific tweaks" above LIB_{H,OBJS}
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Nov 14, 2010, 19:08 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> Change the Makefile so that the "Platform specific tweaks" section
> comes before the assignments to LIB_H and LIB_OBJS.
>
> 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.Isn't this similar to block-sha1, which is controlled by the feature macro BLK_SHA1 that can be inferred from platform tweak? The mechanism is not a hack but is a way LIB_H and LIB_OBJS are intended to be used, so there must be something missing in your explanation.