Hi Sam, Thanks much for your help. I think I'll go for solution 2 - option 1.
Regards, Hari On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:46:28PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:13:06PM +0530, Hariprasad Nellitheertha wrote: > > The problem with this is that the target is not built when we build LKCD > > as a module, as CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is set to "m". I read the kbuild > > documentation and there does not seem to be anything equivalent to > > extra-y when it comes to modules. > > > > In order to overcome the problem, I used an ifdef-endif wrapper as below. > > > > ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP > > extra-y := kerntypes.o > > endif > > Two type of solutions exits. > You can always define a symbol in your Kconfig file with the bool type > and use that in the Makefile. > > So it looks like: > extra-$(CONFIG_KERN_TYPES) += kerntypes.o > > Note: I prefer '+=', which allow you to just add an extra line > anywhere in the file. > > The second type of solution is simply to replace the m with an y. > Several syntaxes are supported: > extra-$(patsubst,m,y,$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP)) += kerntypes.o > extra-$(subst,m,y,$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP)) += kerntypes.o > extra-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP:m=y) += kerntypes.o > > The first one is the most widely used construction. So if you > go for solution 2, then use patsubst. > > Sam -- Hariprasad Nellitheertha Linux Technology Center India Software Labs IBM India, Bangalore ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
