Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [KBUILD] Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup | Date | Sun, 06 Feb 2000 21:50:41 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> said: > [mec] > > Ultimately I would like to see the link order dependencies specified > > explicitly in some way. (foo.o needs to come before bar.o et > > cetera), and then have Rules.make guarantee to honor that through > > list manipulation. But not in 2.4.
> When Linus did the link order thing, I thought at the time that it > would be neat to have every init function be able to return -EAGAIN and > it would then be put back on the end of the queue. The master init > function would keep cycling through the list until one entire run with > no success returns.
Urgh.
> Like you do with bubble sort. (:
Exactly.
I proposed some time back (on linux-kernel) to use tsort(1) for this, as it was created just for keeping track of link order. The idea was shot down as too hacky :( -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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