Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:48:04AM +1000, Greg Banks wrote: > > Ok, why don't you and Peter Samuelson get together, create such a thing and > > we can compare it against kbuild2.5? If it's simple and a win, great! > The same reasons as so many other I belive: > I do not have the need, I do not have the time, so I do not bother doing it. > > But I could return the question to you. If you thing this needs to be > done by kbuild - why not add it to kbuild. > The answer that it is already there in kbuild-2.5 I do not buy into.
Well, until recently that was the entire reason nobody bothered to do anything at all to kbuild, because we all know it would be solved in kbuild-2.5 and that Linus had said he was in favour of kbuild-2.5. Until Linus changed his mind this was a perfectly good plan. > Reasons for this is simple: > - kbuild-2.5 is not in main line Yes. > - kbuild-2.5 forces a new syntax for makefiles Yes. > - kbuild-2.5 adds a lot of complexity compared to Rules.make* as of today. Actually, I would dispute that. Firstly, Rules.make is already quite complex, but the complexity is perhaps not obvious. Secondly, kbuild-2.5 does not replace something simple with something complex, instead it replaces something complex and broken with something of greater complexity and not broken. The complexity added by kbuild-2.5 is added to fix cases which are ignored or poorly handled in kbuild, it's not spurious or bloatful. > * Rules.make needs some commenting to explain the magic behind the > constructs. kbuild-2.5 does a good job commenting the src. I think if Rules.make explained itself as well as Keith's work you would see why the extra complexity is justified. > A big open question for me is still: > o What do I get from kbuild-2.5 that justify the added complexity? > -> Separate obj and src trees [Soon available in kbuild-2.4] > -> Shadow trees > -> Faster total build > -> Slower build of a single object when no specific syntax is used > NO_MAKEFILE_GEN > -> Better documentation, and more precise documentation As Keith keeps pointing out, the build is more accurate. Greg. -- the price of civilisation today is a courageous willingness to prevail, with force, if necessary, against whatever vicious and uncomprehending enemies try to strike it down. - Roger Sandall, The Age, 28Sep2001. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Caffeinated soap. No kidding. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
