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Notes on Coding Standards/Requirements for OpenAFS Source
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Do not use $< in any cross-platform dir as it requires a reasonable
make that is not available on all systems.
Be careful with prototypes/ANSI-C in code that will be compiled for
kernel source. In general, avoid them until we have figured out
exactly when/where they can be used safely.
Do not have build rules that build multiple targets. Make doesn't seem able
to handle this, and it interferes with -j builds. (In particular, build the
rxgen targets individually and not using the flags for building all the files
in one shot.)
Try to test builds using gmake -j # MAKE="gmake -j #", it seems like a good
way to find missing or order-dependent dependency rules. (Is there a better
way to do this?)