Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 06 Sep 2000 19:56:06 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > > > We could use some more infrastructure here. > > > > (1) A 'make randomconfig' tool that generates a random configuration. > > > > (2) Make the architecture a configuration variable (!) > > > > (3) A collection of RPM's so that people can download and install > > all the cross tools easily. > > (0) knowledge that CONFIG_FOO15 doesn't affect anything other than set of > source files being compiled. > > Providing better tools is nice, but simplifying the problem domain > sometimes pays better...
<IRONY ON> So may I just suggest to repleace the usage of cpp at all with something more suitable for the task at hand and with a much more regular/stringent syntax better fitting into the syntax of the pure C language like m4 for example? </IRONY OFF>
<EVEN MORE IRONY ON> I think Java has the perfect solution for conditional compilation - don't make it possible at al in a sane standard way! Coditional compilation is evil like gotos (despite the fact that even every pascal implementation out there provided them). </EVEN MORE IRONY OFF>
The main problem with the CONFIG_ blah's isn't either the syntax nor they current usage - the problem is inherent to the simple fact that the number of possible combinations is of a very high order due to simple combinatorics.
Hmm maybe the first irony is a quite serious suggestion at least in the case of CONFIG_ options? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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