Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:35:14 +0100 (CET) | From | Regis Duchesne <> | Subject | Re: xconfig lossage: summary and suggestions (long) |
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> > I have already done this partly: evrything is parsed, but I have to handle > > some special cases like in the sound driver which uses > > int 'foo' CONFIG_A $CONFIG_B instead of the classical > > int 'foo' CONFIG_A 13 for example. > > I think you just have to call word_eval here. What is word_eval?
> Regis, if you can send me diagnostics, I'm interested in fixing the > existing configuration files. Names that don't begin with CONFIG_* > are more than esthetic nuisances now; Smart Config sees configuration > variables only if they start with CONFIG_*. Also note that these > files have been fixed a lot in 2.1.87. I will have a look at 2.1.87, and will send you the problems I encounter For example, I really dislike things like in drivers/net/Config.in:
if [ "$CONFIG_MCA" = "y" ]; then tristate 'SMC Ultra MCA support' CONFIG_ULTRA else tristate 'SMC Ultra support' CONFIG_ULTRA fi
I see this as a variable redefinition. What is your opinion about it?
> Is GTK available under the GPL? Of course it is. But the quality is like the commercial Qt
> I do. A configuration tool is less useful if the user has to install > something else first. Do you consider that a X-server plus TCL plus TK is not "something else"?
> Perhaps 'make xconfig' could bring up a TCL/TK > version. > It ought to be easy to emit the same kconfig.tk that we are > emitting now. Then 'make gtkconfig' could bring up the new beautiful > gtk version. Two months later, if few people are using 'make xconfig', > then de-support it it. Agreed. We can have both of them. But the problem then is to decide which back-end must be included into the mainstream distribution. Perhaps Linus will refuse to have too much back-ends.
> Please don't do this in phase 1. I want to see .config files that > look *exactly* like they used to. People can have unknown software > tools that do things with .config files. Ok
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