From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 23:40:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 23:40:50 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-015.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.15]:49887 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 23:40:49 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" From: Daniel Phillips To: "Hua Zhong" , "Kenneth Johansson" Subject: Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 05:39:21 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: "Keith Owens" , In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 31 May 2002 05:29, Hua Zhong wrote: > Auh..the "only Keith could fix things"....come'on, isn't this open-source? > Hey, You guys are genius, > and I don't believe at all a build system is more complex than any piece of > the kernel itself. And look at > the VM change during 2.4 (sorry to mention it again), how about "only Andrea > could fix bugs in the new > VM"? That still happened, although there was far less documentation of the > new VM than that of kbuild 2.5. Funny you should mention that, since I just this minute completed a small hack for the benefit of Andrew Morton, who likes to be able to have his .config as a symlink. Yes it was easy, even starting from a state of nearly complete cluelessness. And before anybody asks, no I did not do the job properly, I do not pretend or want to be a member of the kbuild team. I just wanted to know how hard it is to hack this thing. -- Daniel