Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Nov 2001 18:32:20 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] mconfig 0.20 available |
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:56:51PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:38:40 +0100, > Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> wrote: > >The mconfig release 0.20 is now available. > > > >Mconfig is a tool to configure the linux kernel, similar to > >make {menu,x,}config, but written in C and with a proper yacc > >parser. > > Christoph, could you explain why this is being added now and how it > compares to CML1 and/or CML2?
It's not added now - Michael started the development about 5 years ago, in 1998 he stopped working on it. In 1999 or 2001 I started hacking on it, only adding what I needed. Now I finally found the time to make a formal release. The tool mconfig parses CML1 rules, and does so _much_ more strictly then any other parser.
> kbuild 2.[45] is completely agnostic about how .config and autoconf.h > are built, the only requirement is that .config be internally > consistent before it goes into the main build phase. I don't care how > .config is built, but I do want to understand why another version of > CML is being developed.
The current cml1 scripts are _very_ ugly, and even if cml2 makes it in 2.5 (yes, I don't like it - but I don't have to decide it..) kernels using cml1 will be around for a long time.
Christoph
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