On Jun 2, 2007, at 4:31 AM, David Laight wrote:

> I've been wondering if there is an easy way to dynamically create
> .c files for the kernel build?
>
> In particular compat/svr4/svr4_stream.c can be created from
> compat/svr4_32/svr4_32_stream.c with a 'simple' sed command, and it
> seems rather a shame to have to keep two 2000 line files in sync.
>
> The makefile rule would be easy, but where would it be added ?

Do the same trick that exec_elf{32,64} does and make the cpp do the  
work.