[kbuild-devel] Re: Switching CML2 back to python1.5x min.

2001-12-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Getting ncurses and python1.5.x to work is painful, or ncurses + (python > 1.5.x || python 2.x) is painful? All of the above. Besides, the whining about 2.0 is just a displacement. If I "fix" that, they'll just bitch about sometging else. -- http:

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Switching CML2 back to python1.5x min.

2001-12-05 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Getting ncurses and python1.5.x to work is painful, or ncurses + (python > > 1.5.x || python 2.x) is painful? > > All of the above. Besides, the whining about 2.0 is just a displacement. > If 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

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

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Rob Landley wrote: > > So anyone perfectly happy with an older distro that didn't > > ship python2-and-whatever-else gets screwed when they want to > > build a newer kernel. Nice. > > 1) Moving from 2.2->2.4, it wouldn't work at all without a newer compiler and > newer modutil

[kbuild-devel] alpha/lib/*.S includes userspace headers ...

2001-12-05 Thread Ghozlane Toumi
'lo all... still converting the alpha to kbuild-2.5.. I thought that we tried to avoid at all costs including userspace headers, it seems that some assembler source in arch/alpha/lib/ have a #include , and on my system it points to /usr/include/alpha/regdef.h , wich is a self contained head

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

2001-12-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ESR, is it practical to have CML2 transcribe a CML1 config file? No, alas. -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. -- E

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

2001-12-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Greg Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >It seems my main contribution has been to provide > Eric with incentive to clarify his language spec and speed up his parser. Stimulus for which I have been deeply grateful. -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ..every

[kbuild-devel] CML2 with python1

2001-12-05 Thread Jan Harkes
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:29:54AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ESR, is it practical to have CML2 transcribe a CML1 config file? > > No, alas. But it _is_ entirely practical to run CML2 with a bog-standard python 1.5 interpreter. I just did a search/re

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

2001-12-05 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:13:46 -0500, Ghozlane Toumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 03 December 2001 20:13, Keith Owens wrote: >Could you take a look a the attached makefile.in , it's in alpha/kernel, for >2.4.16 , i'd welcome any comment, specificaly regarding the >"ifneq ($(CONFIG_ALPHA_E

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

2001-12-05 Thread Martin Dalecki
> > Thanks but NO thanks > > Then go help Greg Banks in his CML2-in-C project. Why? The current system works fine for me! ___ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel

Re: [kbuild-devel] alpha/lib/*.S includes userspace headers ...

2001-12-05 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:59:16 -0500, Ghozlane Toumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I thought that we tried to avoid at all costs including userspace headers, it >seems that some assembler source in arch/alpha/lib/ have a #include > , and on my system it points to /usr/include/alpha/regdef.h >, wic