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    SubjectRe: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5
    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
    > > Unfortunately, the syntax of CML1 is rebarbative, and its imperative
    > > semantics cannot be mechanically translated to CML2's declarative
    > > semantics by any means I'm aware of.
    >
    > The dependancy tree from CML1 is not that hard to obtain. It's not quite
    > complete or correct though

    That's right -- and the devil would be in the incomplete/incorrect
    details. Areas of special pain: (1) cross-directory constraints, (2)
    derivations, (3) multiple port tree apexes. These are all areas where
    CML1 has design flaws that human coders get around by applying
    higher-level knowledge of a kind a mechanical translator couldn't
    have.

    This is, alas, one of those cases where the first 90% of the problem looks
    easy and the last 10% turns ought to be nigh-impossible -- and the
    first 90% is useless without the last 10%.
    --
    <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

    "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look
    upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
    -- Mohandas Ghandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446
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