From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] [patch] kbuild: remember ARCH in the object directory
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:12:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466F527E.1010106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070612180957.GD15329@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> If we go the "save important parts of the config" I prefer
> something along the suggestion by hpa with a config file.
> The config file should though be named along the lines
> of Kbuild.config and the syntax should be future proof.
> I like the syntax of the .git/config file and
> it should be along these lines.
>
It's actually derived from the Windows 3.x config file. I think it's
massive overkill for this purpose; since the variables can be set on the
command line we're not dealing with multiple namespaces, and it would be
better to have a make-like syntax.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-13 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 9:51 [patch 4/9] lguest: the asm offsets akpm
2007-05-09 20:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-10 0:09 ` Rusty Russell
2007-06-11 12:49 ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-11 12:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-12 10:31 ` [patch] kbuild: remember ARCH in the object directory Oleg Verych
2007-06-12 15:04 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-12 16:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-12 17:19 ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-12 18:09 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-13 2:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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