[PATCH] make dir/file.o is still broken :(

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 13 March 2006 17:28, Rob Landley wrote:
> > make: *** [applets/applets.o] Error 1
> > # make applets/applets.s
> > make: *** No rule to make target `applets/applets.s'.  Stop.
> 
> Why on earth are you trying to make an assembly file?  We don't do that 
> anywhere in the tree, to we?  It's not portable...

I use it to see what actual code is generated. Helps to understand
where exactly it grows too much. Remember those "shrink unlzma by 50%" patches?

> > It also adds a "make dir/file.i" target for generating preprocessed C file.
> 
> Why would we want to do this?

For debugging reasons.
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