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From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@dplanet.ch>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild [which is not only ...2]
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:06:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6E2F3C.3090303@dplanet.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C6E1F90.40404@dplanet.ch> <22527.1013851097@redhat.com>

David Woodhouse wrote:

> cate@dplanet.ch said:
> 
>> I have some comment/explications about the thread about kbuild.
>>
> 
> The thread isn't about kbuild. It's about <omitted>. Please do not confuse
> the two or even mention them in the same mail. It only serves to promote the 
> confusion.
> 
> kbuild is far more obviously the right thing to do. The main objection to it
> last time I saw a discussion was that it has a performance problem in
> certain cases -- which I believe Keith is working on. 


You will confise users...

Notation:
kbuild = kernel build utilities, now = 'kbuild-2.4' + 'CML1' + 
Configure.help.

Thus kbuild is not only Makefiles.

Historically (and I think still in MAINTAINERS file), the
kbuild mailing list is for configurations. There was no
real maintainer of Makefiles.


	giacomo



  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-16 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-16  9:00 kbuild [which is not only CML2] Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2002-02-16  9:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-16  9:18 ` kbuild [which is not only ...2] David Woodhouse
2002-02-16 10:06   ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi [this message]
2002-02-16 14:55 ` kbuild [which is not only CML2] John Levon

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