Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Kai Germaschewski] > > Honestly, I do not like this. It's probably the best that can be > > done in shell, but I think it's ugly and not intuitive. > [...] > The shell-syntax if [ ] might seem intuitive at first glance, if you > already know the Bourne shell, but that leads you into the trap that > you can use *any* Bourne shell syntax there, which of course you > can't. For example, someone might try the following: > > if [ "$CONFIG_FOO" = "y" ] || [ "$CONFIG_BAR" = "y" ]; then >
This has already happened. http://linus.bkbits.net:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?nav=index.html|src/.|src/arch|src/arch/ia64|related/arch/ia64/config.in > By using *exactly* the same syntax for dep_* and if_dep, I hope to > *reduce* the confusion of exactly what functionality is or is not > available. Currently we have a *completely arbitrary* subset of > Bourne shell and /bin/test, which is Not Good. Agreed. > > I realize this limitation is largely caused by using shell as the > > interpreter, but in this case I'd prefer to drop using shell, I > > think we all agree that a using common parser later would be a good > > thing anyway, and that really does not need to be written in shell. > > If we can get mconfig or similar into the standard kernel and displace > Configure and Menuconfig, we'll certainly have a lot more options. I > agree that it would be nice to drop the requirement for shell parsing. > I just don't know if it's a realistic goal, especially before 2.6. I think that a change to a new parser is something we would want to do quite early in a development series for much the same reasons that the CML2 switch was supposed to happen early in 2.5, i.e. maximise the time to work the bugs out. 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: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
