Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:13:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: dealing with excessive includes |
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Would be a worthy goal imho. Can it be done with scripts? > > > > Making them self-contained or checking whether they are? :-) > > > > The latter is simple, just compile each of them into dummy object files, which > > should give no compile errors. > > It's _not_ simple. Not at all. > > We have tons of issues that depend on config variables and architecture > details.
Indeed, so the config variables and architecture details should be handled in the include files, not in the (multiple) users of those include files.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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