+$flavour = shift;
+if ($flavour=~/\w[\w\-]*\.\w+$/) { $output=$flavour; undef $flavour; }
+else { while (($output=shift) && ($output!~/\w[\w\-]*\.\w+$/)) {} }
+
+if ($flavour && $flavour ne "void") {
+ $0 =~ m/(.*[\/\\])[^\/\\]+$/; $dir=$1;
+ ( $xlate="${dir}arm-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate ) or
+ ( $xlate="${dir}../../perlasm/arm-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate) or
+ die "can't locate arm-xlate.pl";
+
+ open STDOUT,"| \"$^X\" $xlate $flavour $output";
+} else {
+ open STDOUT,">$output";
+}