On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:53:42PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:16:45PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > > I think I may have a better idea. Let the default be a ? : name-valued > > > expression. So your format choice could look something like this: > > > > > > choices kernel_format > > > VMLINUX VMLINUZ IMAGE ZIMAGE BZIMAGE > > > default ((X86 or IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : BZIMAGE) > > > > I don't know.... What about other defaults? If 'vmlinuz' == 'zImage', > > this might be OK, otherwise we'd need something like: > > choices kernel_format > > VMLINUX VMLINUZ IMAGE ZIMAGE BZIMAGE ZIMAGE.INITRD > > default ((X86 or IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : (PPC) ? ZIMAGE : BZIMAGE) > > unless PPC suppress ZIMAGE.INITRD > > > > If I'm reading that right (and I don't know, wouldn't it be > > default ((IA64 or SPARC) ? VMLINUZ : BZIMAGE), ia64/sparc do vmlinuz, > > else bzImage). > > I'm not understanding your objection. Is it to the specific rule above, > or the proposed mechanism?
I'm just pointing out that we'll end up with somelike really long and ugly since there'll be at least 3 'defaults' and probably more. If you think it's better to have lots of the test ? a : b's nested instead of making these things architecutre-specific, that's fine I suppose. > -- > <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > > "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a > troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left > to irresponsible action." > -- George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790 -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
