Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:52:03 -0500 | | Subject | Re: linux kernel conf 0.8 | | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[Roman Zippel] > The problem is that the config syntax will continue to evolve and > currently I prefer to keep the library close to the matching config > files. > I think I can keep the basic structure constant, but new options will be > added, so IMO it's more likely that a front end works with a newer > library than that a library can understand a newer syntax.
Besides which, I think it is ridiculous that one would have to download and install a "kernel configurator" just to build a kernel. Current minimum requirements for compiling the thing are gcc, binutils and GNU make. The kernel can't very well ship a copy of any of those, because (a) they're huge and (b) they're useful for many things other than building kernels. Roman's library is neither.
(And no, "modutils" isn't a counterexample - you can build, install and run a kernel without it.)
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