Re: [kbuild-devel] Random configurator

2001-05-04 Thread Ghozlane Toumi
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > I dimly remember that somebody had a script to generate random > configurations for kbuild. Is there a reasonably current version > available, for any 2.4 kernel? I want to stress test my 2.5 rules. hi, sory for the delay , I made something like that

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

2001-05-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Albert D. Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Procedure: > > 1. throw out all junk symbols (could try spell checking first) > 2. mark non-default settings as read-only > 3. add missing symbols as needed to meet constraints > 4. add any additional missing symbols > 5. mutate the config until it works..

[kbuild-devel] CML2 1.4.0, aka "brutality and heuristics"

2001-05-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.4.0: Fri May 4 18:18:15 EDT 2001 * Ugly hack for recovery from inconsistent configurations. We've spent a lot of time and effort recently arguing about elaborate recovery algorithms for the extremely un