From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:41:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27957.993825687@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:30:36 +0100." <20010629153036.A10196@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:30:36 +0100,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:21:09AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Create arch/Config.in which contains
>>
>> define_bool CONFIG_ARCH_i386 n
>> define_bool CONFIG_ARCH_ia64 n
>> define_bool CONFIG_ARCH_sparc n
>>
>> etc., then change each of the arch/xxx/Config.in files to
>> source arch/Config.in as their first line first.
>
>I'd rather that we fixed dep_* so that undefined symbols were treated as
>'n', just like the makefiles treat undefined symbols.
make config and oldconfig are shell scripts. They are limited to what
shells can do which includes "undefined variables are null", the
variable expansion is done before tristate and friends are invoked.
Of course, you could rewrite bash ...
Just put this down as one of the many "interesting" features of CML1,
put a band aid on it and move on to CML2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-29 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-29 14:10 linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs Adam J. Richter
2001-06-29 14:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-29 14:30 ` Russell King
2001-06-29 14:41 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-06-29 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29 14:30 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-30 4:35 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 7:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 9:20 ` Russell King
2001-06-30 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 11:58 ` Russell King
2001-06-30 12:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 12:02 ` Russell King
2001-06-30 11:45 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-30 12:10 ` Russell King
2001-06-30 4:40 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 7:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 9:38 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 13:32 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 14:57 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 15:01 ` Russell King
2001-07-01 2:39 ` Keith Owens
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