On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > I was going to say that this would not work at all because the > paradigms for 24 and 25 are just too different ... but then I noticed > that the vast majority of makefiles in the kbuild25-common patches are > not really aware of the advanced kbuild25 features. Assuming someone > were willing to write a parser to handle the common functions - > select(), ifsel(), expsyms(), link_subdirs(), and a few others - a lot > of Makefiles could go in this way, transformed at runtime to something > that uses Rules.make. There could be even a function kbuild_24(SOMETHING) that writes SOMETHING to the Makefile without really parsing anything. It's nasty, but it could make this temporary parser easier.
> Anyone want to write such a parser? Sorry, I'm neither familiar enough with Bison nor with kbuild-2[4,5] to try such a task :-( > The first thing that should be sent independently to Linus is probably > the asm-offsets stuff. It is mostly independent of the makefile > structure. If this is independent, great! Yet another thing that can be split up. Dominik
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