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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: gibbs@plutotech.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: kernel builds and obj dirs..
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>> My only worry in doing this is that the objs from the assembler may
>> conflict with other obj files from the kernel build proper.  If we
>> decided that this is how we want to handle this, I'll change the lex/yacc
>> files to have more unique names and make the appropriate changes to the
>> build of the assembler.

The lex/yacc files a a bit of a problem.  Otherwise there is no more of
a problem keeping the names unique than with any other sources in the
kernel.

>Build it in a subdirectory perhaps?

Ugh.  What do you think of the way that the Linux kernel is built in
subdirectories?  :-)

Bruce