Re: [PATCH v4] mk: filter duplicate configuration entries

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2016-07-06 11:13, Christian Ehrhardt:
> *updates in v4*
> - replace awk usage with sed
> - re-add the old loop to be able to get rid of awk
> - add more explanation to the header of the makefile section
> 
> *updates in v3*
> - replace tac with sed '1!G;h;$!d' to avoid build time dependency
> 
> *updates in v2*
> - move to .config target
> - fix usage order of tac
> - simplify inner section by only using awk (instead of awk+loop+bash+sed)
> 
> Due to the hierarchy and the demand to keep the base config showing all
> options, some config keys end up multiple times in the .config file.
> 
> Due to the way the actual config is sourced only the last entry is
> important. That can confuse people changing values in .config which
> are then ignored.
> 
> A suggested solution was to filter for duplicates at the end of the
> actual config step which is implemented here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>

Applied, thanks