David Woodhouse wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:56 +0100, Oleg Verych wrote:
I saw that. My point is pure text processing. But as it seems doing
`make` is a lot more fun than to do `sh` `sed`.
The problem is that it _isn't_ pure text processing. There's more to
building with --combine
You can do this without changin the Makefile, if you provide suitable
scripts on $PATH for the make.
I want to add here whole issue of kbuild's way of dependency
calculation and rebuild technique.
1) This whole infrastructure is needed only for developers. But
developer while writing/updating
On Fri, 13 June 2008 14:10:29 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
Maybe I should just be grateful for any ccache hits I get.
ccache's usefulness depends on your workload. If you make a change to
include/linux/fs.h, close to 100% of the kernel is rebuilt, with or
without ccache. But when you revert that
On Friday 13 June 2008 15:05:54 Tim Bird wrote:
Rob,
This is an excellent and concise description of the open
source perspective on the problem. I'll add just one note below.
Rob Landley wrote:
1) Try to reproduce the bug under a current kernel. (Set up a _test_
system.)
This sounds
On Sunday 15 June 2008 10:39:43 Leon Woestenberg wrote:
Hello all,
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most packages don't cross compile at all. Debian has somewhere north of
30,000 packages. Every project that does large scale cross compiling
On Thursday 12 June 2008 13:18:07 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Hi,
There's also qemu. You can native build under emulation.
did you ever consider that crosscompiling is not only good for
some other arch, but a few more things ?
Sure, such as building a
* Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
A trouble with that is some packages have hundreds of user-selectable
options - or even thousands. It is unfeasible to use --enable-foo
options for all of those when configuring then.
Well, not that much ;-o
But taking care of such feature switches
* Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Media players with lots of optional formats and drivers are another.
(They also have considerable problems with their Autoconf in my
experience).
You probably mean their hand-written ./configure script, which is
intentionally incompatible w/ autoconf
