Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH 25/33] kbuild: use POSIX BRE in headers install target

Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-21T22:23:10Z

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On 7/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 06:03:00PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On 7/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > > >I would much more prefer this functionality to be integrated into unifdef.
> > > >There is no good reason to have two different preprocesisng methonds, one
> > > >being the sed based one and the other the unidef one.
> > > >
> > > >A sinlge dedicated program that contian the sum of the functionality would
> > > >be faster too.
> > >
> > > which functionality ? normalizing of whitespace or all these
> > > linux-specific hacks ? unifdef serves one specific function which is
> > > stated in its manpage: remove preprocessor conditionals from code.
> >
> > At present the kernel has a private copy of unidef. So adjusting the
> > private copy for the needs of the kernels seems like a god plan.
>
> didnt realize the kernel had integrated it since it didnt at first ...
> so yeah, extending it however we see fit should be fine
> -mike

just for the entertainment value:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217840

rday
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