[kbuild-devel] Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

2002-02-18 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: I agree, but we know some strange 'behaviour' of MS. They have a lot of lawers, they can make us a lot of trouble. (You will notice that there are no copyright statment on that file, only the name of authors). Remember the RMS (a flame with

[kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config build system

2001-12-28 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: The design reason is that having a single file with all the symbol-to-prompt mappings in it is really helpful when you want to localize the rulebase for another language. I'm still leaning towards keeping symbols.cml together just to make it

[kbuild-devel] Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: You're almost right. If you counted only explicit constraints, created by require statements, you get a bunch of cliques that aren't that large. Unfortunatelythere are a huge bunch of implicit constraints created by dependency