Peter Samuelson wrote: >[Brendan J Simon] > > >>What is the status of kbuild with respect to getting into the kernel >>proper ? >>Is it going to get into the linus kernel source tree ?? >> >> >At this point it doesn't seem likely. Of the rich feature set Keith >produced, Kai Germaschewski has managed to replicate the most >compelling features (though by no means all!) by incrementally tweaking >the Rules.make-based system, so Linus doesn't seem to see the urgency >of replacing the whole thing. > Is there a site that documents the changes the Kai has made or is making ? I'm mainly interested in building in seperate directories, building from readonly src directories and having a single makefile so that a complete dependency graph is generated.
>>I hope kbuild-2.5 does have a future because so much hard work has >>gone into it. It would be a shame to see all the effort wasted. >> >> >Me too, but Linus has never made any secret of the fact that he doesn't >really care much about effort wasted, so long as he gets a kernel he is >happy with. Call it what you will, we all know that's how this game is >played.... > > Doesn't sound promising. I guess that's why Keith has been quiet on this list in recent times. It sounds like politics has killed another great project. Hopefully Kai can do a good job of getting some of great kbuild work into the kernel (in some form). Cheers, Brendan Simon. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
