Re: 2.5.19 - What's up with the kernel build?

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 04:00, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Well, I really like Keith's kbuild25 too, but Linus said (at least once) 
> > he wanted an evolution to a new build system... not an unreasonable 
> > request to at least consider.  Despite Keith's quality of code (again -- 
> > I like kbuild25), his 3 patch submissions seemed a lot like ultimatums, 
> > very "take it or leave it dammit".  Not the best way to win friends and 
> > influence people.
> > 
> > If Keith is indeed leaving it, I'm hoping someone will maintain it, or 
> > work with Kai to integrate it into 2.5.x.
> 
> Oh well, it really wasn't my intention to start the good old kbuild-2.5
> thread at all.
> 
> Anyway, I believe kbuild-2.5 has lots of useful ideas and I'll go pick 
> pieces - from kbuild-2.5, from dancing-makefiles, from stuff I've done 
> myself and work on improving the current build system. But I believe in 
> make, and don't think I'll move away from it.

I wish you would just join the kbuild team and work with them instead of
against them.  And what makes you think that it doesn't use make?

-- 
Daniel