On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonathan Stone wrote:

: .lo, for "local"-cpu object files in an obj tree where .o files are
: otherwise for the target CPU. I think it conflicts with existing
: targets in GNU Makefiles, though.

That's fine; GNU makefiles don't include <bsd.sys.mk>.  That sounds good to
me.  (Some packages use .lo; KDE is one IIRC, but none of them use
<bsd.sys.mk> either.)

: Does the stock FSF gcc or egcs already use an extension for
: native-host object files, or are still supposed to compile and run
: those (e.g., make float.h) on the target host?

No.  They use the same confusing setup of .o for everything.

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