G'day,
gcml2 is (among other things) a Linux kconfig language syntax
checker. Version 0.7 is available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18813release_id=106023
and
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~gnb/gcml2/download.html
There's also an online summary of the warnings and
Roman Zippel wrote:
The problem here is one should consider, how all these little changes will
help to solve the big problems. Do they allow to more easily fix the big
problems or have these changes to be dumped again?
I believe fixing the existing rules within the existing syntax is an
Kai Germaschewski wrote:
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:
The more I think about it, the more I think the default if_dep should
do the m-restricting thing. That way:
dep_bool FOO1 BAR BAZ
dep_mbool FOO2 BAR BAZ
dep_tristate FOO3 BAR BAZ
is exactly equivalent
Hi,
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Greg Banks wrote:
Unlike you, I'm not optimistic that a switch to a new language or even a new
parser for the old language will ever happen.
It would be nice if I could get it into 2.6, but it's not a problem if it
has to wait. I'm currently busy getting menuconfig
Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Kai Germaschewski]
I didn't look into like choice statements, but I'd hope it's
possible to add dependencies to them, too, for consistency.
I agree. Actually, if we're changing 'choice' anyway, it should be
redesigned. Status quo takes three arguments:
Peter Samuelson wrote:
My main goal is to make it easier to write Config.in files, by making
the syntax and semantics less awkward. [...]
* The current 'if' statement is really ugly and unintuitive,[...]
Agreed.
* Current 'if' semantics are hard to get right in many common cases.[...]
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:27:50PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
I'm not optimistic that a switch to a new language or even a new
parser for the old language will ever happen.
I asked Linus specifically about the replacement of the shell based parsers.
The answer were quite simple:
- It should be
[Kai Henningsen]
Incidentally, wouldn't it make sense to use dep_if instead of if_dep?
Yes, probably. I'll go ahead and change it in my tree, unless anyone
objects violently.
Peter
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[Greg Banks]
Ok, we need to be a little bit careful about semantics here, or
there is going to be issues converting the existing corpus.
Agreed.
Currently the if syntax and dependencies are not the same thing;
the if condition is purely a visibility limit, and deps are both
value and
