Re: grub-1.97

[Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 11:02 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs:
>> Since there is only one Makefile, I could take a shot at creating a
>> patch to 
>> address this problem.  Would you be interested in such a patch? 
> 
> That's wrong that there is just one Makefile. Well it's true that there
> is just one file named like that, but the main Makefiles are the
> conf/*.mk files generated from conf/*.rmk by genmk.rb.

Yes I see that now.  Obviously I spoke before reviewing the internals of the 
build system.  I'll review it in a bit more detail and see if I can contribute 
something useful.

> There wasn't yet much talk about improving our build system.

Yes, that and documentation are generally the last things to be considered in a 
project.

> But except of this nobody had much interest/time to improve or even
> directly replace our build system by something better.

I have some interest, but I'm not sure of the time.  I can at least look at it 
and possibly make some suggestions/patches.

> Okuji already objected against automake because according to him it
> doestn't satisfy the needs for our build system.

I'm not a great fan of automake either.

   -- Bruce