Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers | Date | Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:38:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Jeff and Alan have put their finger neatly on one of the key bits CML2 > can do that CML1 cannot -- express cross-directory dependencies in > such a way that the configurator can force side effects in both > directions. This is, in fact, the very rock on which my original > attempt to save CML1 foundered after six weeks of effort.
You can force a side effect in both directions. The language provides the information to do that, the current -toolset- can't handle this.
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