From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:17:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:17:31 -0400 Received: from ppp0.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.3]:17679 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:17:22 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: Roman Zippel cc: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1.1 is available. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:55:04 +0200." <3B75A9B8.ECB8644@linux-m68k.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:17:27 +1000 Message-ID: <4682.997579047@ocs3.ocs-net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:55:04 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: > >> None of the above methods handle dependency checking at all. PPC makes >> an attempt but it is manually defined and is incomplete, no other arch >> even makes an attempt. > >I'm wondering that you don't mention m68k, because we generate >dependencies... >(Has nothing to do with kbuild, I'm just curious. :) ) Because I did a quick sweep through the arch makefiles looking for the word 'offsets'. That is part of the problem, the offsets file has different names in some architectures. Most call it offsets, PPC uses mk_def and ppc_defs, arm uses getconstants and constants, m68k uses m68k_defs. It does not help when the code that generates the asm constants is in different directories on some architectures. Now you know why I want a standard method, with a standard name and standard directory location.