Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:16:12 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bernhard Kaindl <> | Subject | Re: _My_ turn for a 2.1 wishlist |
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On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Robert de Bath wrote:
> What I've done before (on userland projects) is to seperate the > 'autoconfig.h' style depends from the ordinary depends, taking > care that the normal depend does _not_ notice changes in the > 'autoconfig' file. > > The "make config_part2" is quite similar to "make depend" but looks for > "#if..."s in C and header files it then filches off the normal make > depend to work out which objects depend on which config options and put > this info into a single file. > > The first thing the compile then did was to compare the old and new > config lists then simply, using the 'dependancy' file, delete all > objects that depend on options that have changed.
Sounds cool. Would you do that for linux also?
Best Regards,
Bernhard Kaindl
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bernhard Kaindl, author of the prototype for linux xconfig and menu- | | config, kmenu, which showed how to write a menu based kernel config | | which generates menus from the standard linux kernel config scripts. | | Email: bartelt@computerhaus.at, lupus@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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