Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does | Date | Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:34:48 +1100 |
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:42:11 +0100, Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: >Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said: >> I know, it makes it even harder to see what the initialization order >> is. Some are controlled by the Makefile/subdirs order, some by special >> calls in the code. > >Just to repeat myself: This is clearly a problem for tsort(1): Give >restrictions of the form "This has to come after that" (perhaps a special >comment at the start of the file containing the init function?), tsort that >and pick the order out of the result. Should be a few lines of script. No >central repository for the dependencies, no messing around with half the >world to fix dependencies. Plus they become explicit, which they aren't >today.
Just to repeat myself: That is exactly what I want to do. Linus vetoed it in October 2000.
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