Subject: Re: Reworking the .o suffices in our Makefiles
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 10/25/2004 13:42:13
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:58:33PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
  | >If we're considering changing this, is there prior art in other
  | >systems (e.g, the GNU toolchain, libtool, ...) for purpose specific
  | >object suffices ?
  |=20
  | FWIW FreeBSD uses .So for shared objects that go into .so libs.

Thanks for the info.
I'm not sure if we support (cross)building onto case sensitive
file systems.  (I think we do).
If so, this could cause problems with that, especially if we're
building a module "foo.so" from "foo.c" via "foo.So".

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