Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild mailing list has moved

2007-10-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
[added the owner of the old list] Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The vger postmasters has created linux-kbuild on my request. > > The old list at sourceforge had a few issues: > - it was subscriber-only > - it were relying on moderation For me it is ok. It was subscriber-only because this was a very low

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: kbuild: Problem with latest GNU make rc

2006-03-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Jesper Juhl wrote: On 3/6/06, Giacomo A. Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sam Ravnborg wrote: sr> Suggestion: sr> We are now warned about an incompatibility in kbuild and we will sr> fix this asap. But that you postpone this particular behaviour sr> change until

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: kbuild: Problem with latest GNU make rc

2006-03-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Sam Ravnborg wrote: sr> Suggestion: sr> We are now warned about an incompatibility in kbuild and we will sr> fix this asap. But that you postpone this particular behaviour sr> change until next make release. Maybe you add in this change as sr> the first thing after the stable relase so

Re: [kbuild-devel] RFC: kernel config: new dependency syntax

2002-08-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Peter Samuelson wrote: > * 'or' placed between dependencies functions as a logical OR, and > takes very low precedence. This complements the implicit AND > performed between every pair of dependencies. > > x or x -> x, for any x > n or m == m or n -> m > n or y == y or n -> y

[kbuild-devel] Re: KBUILD_SRCTREE_xxx proposal

2002-01-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:42:02 +0100, > "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have some problem with the KBUILD_SRCTREE, and > >reading the kbuild-2.5 makefile and the CML2, I > >think I'm not alone. > &g

[kbuild-devel] KBUILD_SRCTREE_xxx proposal

2002-01-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello. I have some problem with the KBUILD_SRCTREE, and reading the kbuild-2.5 makefile and the CML2, I think I'm not alone. I don't like the actual syntax, so I propose some improvements, and it is difficult to apply in non gcc cases. kbuild-2. should set the internal variable kbuild_scrtree t

[kbuild-devel] kpatch.sh

2001-12-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello. I just created 'kpatch.sh'. This bash shell apply automatically multiple kernel patches. script/patch-kernel already exists in current kernels, but it has some limit, which I would eliminate. WARNING: It is in early beta stage: I made very few tests. My scripts: - support all official k

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

2001-12-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Eric, this is the _wrong_approach_. I want /local/ files, not global ones. > > First: where should the prompt-string definitions for capability > symbols that occur in multiple port trees live? Proposal: the main cml script in

Re: [kbuild-devel] autoconfigure.sh and cmlconfigure.py design philosophy

2001-12-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > There is a third possibility. autoconfigure.sh is going to pass its > results to cmlconfigure.py in a file with the format of a config.out. > Right now all those results are symbol bindings (FOO=y, BAR=n). > Conceivably autoconfigure.sh could also pass a directive like

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: get_versions.sh

2001-11-30 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > CONFIG_UTIL_LINUX=y > CONFIG_UTIL_LINUX_VERSION=2.11g > which: no pppd in >(.:/home/esr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin) > CONFIG_E2FS=y > CONFIG_E2FS_VERSION=1.23 > which: no cardmgr in >(.:/home/esr/b

[kbuild-devel] kbuild 1.3 comments and bugs

2001-09-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello After reading again the documentations and playing again with kbuild I've found: BUG: $ make mrproper $ make mrproper Error: you must create a .config first mrproper should not depend on .config (contents and existance). COMMENT: Your documentation is extensive, but I didn't found t

Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [esr] > > > Besides, right now the configurator has a simple invariant. It will > > > only accept consistent configurations > > > > So you are saying that the old 'vi .config; make oldconfig' trick is > > officially unsupporte

Re: [kbuild-devel] Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Horst von Brand wrote: > > "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [...] > > > It whould nice also if we include the type of the license (GPL,...). > > If it's in-kernel, it is GPLed. No if it is build into the kernel is GPL or GP

Re: [kbuild-devel] Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Is there any kernel code that isn't GPLed? No. Nearly all code is GPL or GPL compatible license. > > There are numerous bits that are dual licensed, some which are licensed > under the BSD non-advertising type license and some of it licensed under the > X license. I resi

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Another is to be able to generate reports on exactly how much of the kernel > > is in "Maintained" or "Supported" status. I think it would be worth > > making this change just so we could know that. > > There is no correlation between claimed and actual levels of supported

Re: [kbuild-devel] Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux kernel > sources. The goal of the system is to make it easy for people reading > any given piece of code to identify the responsible maintainer. The motivation > for this proposal is that the present