From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Kconfig and toolchain dependencies
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:26:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3188E9.8000804@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120204183259.GA28208@leaf>
On 02/04/2012 10:32 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have a feel for if this would be a good addition, and if so
>> where it best fits into the chain?
>
> This seems like a *great* idea. Unfortunately, a quick look at the
> implementation of kbuild suggests that it doesn't currently implement
> numeric comparisons (<, <=, >, >=), only equality (= and !=). Most of
> the time, a Kconfig file will want to write "depends GCC >=
> some_version".
>
> Looking at scripts/kconfig/expr.c, it doesn't look that hard to add,
> though.
>
Range dependencies are probably useful in their own right, too.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-03 21:29 Kconfig and toolchain dependencies H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-04 18:32 ` Josh Triplett
2012-02-07 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-02-24 22:19 ` Michal Marek
2012-02-24 22:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
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