[kbuild-devel] howto define one var. to another's value (y/n/m)

2002-10-08 Thread Randy.Dunlap
Hi, I see this in drivers/parport/Config.in (2.4.19) [not picking on parport; this occurs in many places]. define_tristate CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1 $CONFIG_PARPORT_PC gcml2 (Greg Banks) checker program flags this with: warning:drivers/parport/Config.in:18:symbol "CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1

[kbuild-devel] Re: linux kernel conf 0.8

2002-10-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Linus, do you have any interest in merging it in the near future? If > not, what's missing? I'm not super-excited about this, partly because of the brouhaha last time around on this issue. This has reasonably distributed config files, and puts the he

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

2002-10-08 Thread Brendan J Simon
Kai Germaschewski wrote: >You must be missing some of the changes (My first push to bkbits was >incomplete, since I did inadvertently edit Makefile without checking it >out, I do that mistake all the time...). It's fixed in the current repo. > > Can't bitkeeper be setup to have readonly files

Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild status

2002-10-08 Thread Brendan J Simon
Peter Samuelson wrote: >The way 'make' determines when a file needs to be rebuilt is by the >simple heuristic "is this file older than any of its dependencies?" >This works fine if you can trust your timestamps to increase >monotonically. Seems obvious - but there are in fact at least four >scen

[kbuild-devel] linux kernel conf 0.8

2002-10-08 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, At http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/ you can find the latest version of the new config system. As already mentioned before lkc is pretty much ready (except for kbuild integration). Linus, do you have any interest in merging it in the near future? If not, what's missing? The 2.5.40 release sho