Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:30:44 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements |
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 07:27:50PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote: > I'm not optimistic that a switch to a new language or even a new > parser for the old language will ever happen. I asked Linus specifically about the replacement of the shell based parsers. The answer were quite simple: - It should be convinient to use a new parser. - Fast compilation, no errors etc. It's doable.
> In http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101387128818052&w=2 > David Woodhouse gives an idea of what would be necessary to get a new > language+parser accepted. Can you achieve that yet? David suggest to use randomly generated configurations, but they lack one important feature. They are always valid, and a new system shall be able to deal with hand-edited .config files in the same way as oldconfig.
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