From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 22:18:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 22:18:03 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-039-142.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.39.142]:33494 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 22:18:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Kai Germaschewski , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: 2.5.19 - What's up with the kernel build? Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 04:17:33 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Paul P Komkoff Jr , In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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