[Bug 1675] mcf5329 BSP post-link conversion broken

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https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1675

--- Comment #9 from Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> 2010-08-17 01:50:11 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
>
> Would it be possible for you to describe the basic approach ?

My utlimate goal was to eliminate make-exe in such a way standard automake LINK
rules would build everything a BSP would need, aiming at eliminating inclusion
of *.cfg's in Makefile.am's 
(This is another long term persisting weakness RTEMS suffers from).

To achieve this, I had started to encapsulate all right-hand sides of make-exe
into scripts and to try generalizing them into one per-target tool.

IIRC, this plan failed, due to several issues interacting:
- Lack of conventions regarding of suffixes/suffix rules.
Meanwhile, introduction of the *.ralf's (BTW: I hate this suffix) might have
lifted some of the issues, I had then.

- People overloading *.cfgs with more and more options.
Very annoying in this context: The RTEMS Makefile-templates.

Back then, my expectation had been in long terms to end up with an linker
wrapper script or similar. 

However, this plan failed and resorted to gradually address the "small
problems" inside by more and more formalizing Makefile.ams.

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