On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> I was going to say that this would not work at all because the
> paradigms for 24 and 25 are just too different ... but then I noticed
> that the vast majority of makefiles in the kbuild25-common patches are
> not really aware of t
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:22:00PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Does it make sense to introduce the "installable" target in kbuild-2.4
> including the better install support?
IMO: yes. Other good "intermediate steps".
> In parrallel with this or even before the less controversial improvements
>
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> The first thing that should be sent independently to Linus is probably
> the asm-offsets stuff. It is mostly independent of the makefile
> structure.
When Linus referred to a big traumatic merge I'm pretty sure what
he had in
[Dominik Brodowski]
> So my suggestion is that in a first step the Makefile.in in each
> directory could be parsed to the existing form of Makefiles[*], with
> the rest of the build system staying the same. This Makefile.in ->
> Makefile (per directory) parsing could be done as first step of "mak
