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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: add default linux configuration
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:59:32 +0000
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 04:04:07PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-02-12 14:31, Panu Matilainen:
> > On 01/28/2016 04:31 PM, Bernard Iremonger wrote:
> > > add config/defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc file.
> > 
> > There was a related discussion back in March, see
> > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-March/014626.html
> > 
> > I intended to go with that and submit patch(es) but the amount of 
> > duplication and new files gets mind-numbing when you make them for all 
> > existing targets. In other words, this approach doesn't scale.
> > 
> > Thomas, I remember seeing a plan to include a configure script in DPDK 
> > many times in past months. Do you have something specific in mind, ie 
> > actually use autoconf or just a custom hand-written script named 
> > "configure" that roughly resembles autoconf configure or...?
> 
> A script named "configure" looks fine.
> Bruce introduced the idea of calling "make config" in the script:
> 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-October/026256.html
> Maybe it is a good start to move forward.
> I think we have to choose between a script and a kconfig approach giving
> the menus GUIs as bonus.
> 
Another thing kconfig can help is to resolve dependencies, harder to make this with a
script. Currently we already have dependencies, although not complex, and resolved
within makefile.

I believe correct place to solve them is a configuration tool so that makefiles or
source files can be clean.

Thanks,
ferruh