From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn_helgaas@hp.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.9.7 is available
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:29:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011213162508.F30944674@ldl.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011212023556.A8819@thyrsus.com> <16992.1008153373@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20011213034930.A8337@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011213034930.A8337@thyrsus.com>
On Thursday 13 December 2001 1:49 am, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>:
> > OUCH! The output from make menuconfig has significantly more options
> > than make oldconfig when given exactly the same input. I thought one
> > of the selling points for CML2 was different front ends but with
> > identical back end processing. I don't like the way that the
> > resulting config varies when fed to different front ends.
>
> Not a big deal -- all the produced config.outs are logically equivalent.
Not a big deal in theory, maybe, but it is very convenient to use diff to
compare .config files, and diff doesn't know about logical equivalence.
--
Bjorn Helgaas - bjorn_helgaas@hp.com
Linux Systems Operation R&D
Hewlett-Packard
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-12 7:35 CML2 1.9.7 is available Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-12 10:36 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-12-13 8:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-13 8:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-13 16:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
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