Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers

Jeff Garzik
2002-02-16T08:33:29Z

"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> > find . -name Config.help -exec cat {} >Configure.help \;
>
> Back-seat drivers. Answers for everything, understanding of nothing.

Did you read this in _How to Win Friends And Influence People_?

> Sorry, it's not *nearly* that simple. For one thing, one of the fourteen
> billion requirements I've had dropped on me is that Marcelo doesn't want
> any symbols in his help file that aren't actually in the 2.4 rulebase.
>
> So I'd have to generate a custom version for him. I used to have the
> machinery to do that by parsing magic comments in my master file.
> Until Linus blew it apart.

Linus also gave you C code which, slightly modified, could discern which
CONFIG_xxx help texts were needed for a given tree.

How hard is it to maintain a database where the key for each entry is
easy an unambigious?

Jeff

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