Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system

Tom Rini
2001-12-28T01:37:52Z

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:22:01AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > That is such an unutterably horrible concept that the very tentacles
> > of Cthulhu himself must twitch in dread at the thought. The last thing
> > anyone sane wants to do is have to maintain two parallel build systems
> > at the same time.
>
> Funny, I could have sworn I read this was Keith's intention at least
> for a few pre's. Maybe I misinterpreted his intentions.

I think Keith wanted a very small time window tho (~24 hrs, barring big
supprises). But if we're going to be worried about the build time,
kbuild-2.5 and cml2 aren't co-dependant, yes? I know kbuild-2.5 works
w/o cml2, and last I tried (ages ago admitedly) cml2 didn't need
kbuild-2.5. So we could, in theory dump cml1 quickly but leave the old
Makefiles for a bit longer. Or if Keith thinks he can start on the
speed problems soon, just plod along for a few releases. :)

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Tom Rini (TR1265)