Re: [PATCHv2] Kbuild: kconfig: Verbose version of --listnewconfig

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 16:14 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> [...]
> >> >> I would not expect to see any header if there is no new symbol(s).
> >> >> However, that might complicate the code too much. Btw, I find
> >> >> "Changes" to be misleading, is that header necessary ?
> >> >
> >> > We use this feature (or an earlier version of it) in automated kernel
> >> > builds in Debian, so we expect the output to appear in build logs and
> >> > the header makes it easier to pick out.
> >> >
> >> That's easily doable outside kconfig.
> >
> > No it isn't, as the Kconfig code must be built as part of the
> > listnewconfig target.  (Building just the code first will provoke
> > warnings about the invalid config.)
> >
> echo "#"
> echo "# Changes:"
> echo "#"
> make [...] listnewconfig
> 
> does the job, without introducing extra header others do not seem to
> want to see.

Now try that with a clean tree and an outdated config file.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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