[kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

2002-01-16 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 11:38 am, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > At this point the rules are compiled and a dialog box indicates that > Suppression has been turned off (press any key to continue). I hit any key > and am presented with the first menu. Ah, I understand the bug. That dialog indic

[kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

2002-01-15 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:41 pm, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Nicolas Pitre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Release 2.1.3: Tue Jan 15 14:41:45 EST 2002 > > > > * The `vitality' flag is gone from the language. Instead, the > > > > autopr

[kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

2002-01-15 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:24 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > To invoke the autoconfigurator, you do one of two things: > > `make autoconfigure' > This runs the autoconfigurator in standalone mode. This gives you > an entire configuration, ready to build with. > > `make autoprobe {config,men

[kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

2002-01-15 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:25 pm, Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:53:24PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > * The `vitality' flag is gone from the language. Instead, the > > autoprober detects the type of your root filesystem and forces > > its symbol to Y. > >

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

2001-12-30 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 29 December 2001 05:43 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > unless (ISA or PCI) suppress dependent IDE > > > > Just a minor point, but what about non-PCI/ISA ide? > > The CML1 rules seem to imply that this set is empty. There are, apparently, paralell port

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.4 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-06 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 06 December 2001 07:57 pm, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > P.S. Can we seperate "add new subsystem y prime" and "remove old > > subsystem y". LIke the new and old SCSI error handling, which have been > >

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-06 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 06 December 2001 12:25 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > So has anyone had time to test the Python version 1.5 based CML2 that > > was posted? Would that make it more acceptable? > > For 2.5 its a great leap forward. For 2.4 its irrelevant. Its simply not > the way stable kernel trees are run,

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-06 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:49 am, Rik van Riel wrote: > > It's insidious, isn't it? > > Yes, I agree the method you're using to smuggle CML2 into > a stable kernel is insidious. Please stop it. 1) I'm not. You're getting your players confused. 2) I don't think Marcelo would take it, so I

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:43 pm, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > After CML2 has proven itself in 2.5, I do plan to go back to Marcelo > > and lobby for him accepting it into 2.4, on the grounds that doing so > > will simplify his maintainance task no end. >

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 03:20 pm, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > FYI, I have never known a problem that python has solved, only > changed. The same could be said of C. By definition, any program that can be expressed in C could have been done on paper in binary. Rob