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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:26:29 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2
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> You could do both. Have the x86 directory that Linus suggests for shared
> files, then have the build system generate the symlinks for you.

Symlinks are usually a bad idea because they tend to not work with objdirs. 
We did that in 2.4.

-Andi