I'm trying to build a linux 2.4.18 kernel with kbuild and using the Aegis configuration management system. Unfortuantely Aegis makes heavy use symlinks to implement something similar to kbuild's shadow directories. Aegis has the option not to use symlinks but the development tools must be able to find files in multiple directories. This means using a sophisticated dependency maintenance tool (such as "cook") or GNU Make with the VPATH/vpath system. The later is fine as far as the DMT is concerned but many tools that the DMT invokes must also be able to search in these directories. These tools are genearlly not that smart.
It was suggested to on the Aegis list that kbuild is most likely using the VPATH/vpath method which seems very likely. I assume the VPTAH is built up from the environment varialbes KBUILD_SRCTREE_XXX. This is great and I have written a script to obtain the directories that Aegis searches for files and put them into the KBUILD_SRCTREE_XXX variables in ascending precendence order. The problem is that KBUILD_SRCTREE_000 must have the kbuild scripts and makefiles (according to the docs). Unfortunately this is not possible as the kbuild patches have been applied to the development directory which is the deepest drectory in the tree. This is the directory that should be searched first and therefore has the higest value for XXX, not 000 as required by kbuild. Is there a solution ??? I think that the next version of KBUILD should change the order of precedence so that KBUILD_SRCTREE_000 has the highest precedence. ie. is the first directory searched. Is there any reason why this is not possible (besides a compatibility issue with previous versions and user habits). Thanks, Brendan Simon. _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
