Re: [RFC 02/29] build: trim down Linux bits

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 11:02 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 10/6/15 7:42 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > On 06.10.15 at 00:03, <cardoe@cardoe.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Changes like this should be explained:
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
> > > ---
> > >  xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore | 1 -
> > >  xen/scripts/basic/Makefile   | 1 -
> > >  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > b/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > index 9528ec9..a776371 100644
> > > --- a/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > +++ b/xen/scripts/basic/.gitignore
> > > @@ -1,2 +1 @@
> > >  fixdep
> > > -bin2c
> > > diff --git a/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile b/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > index ec10d93..4fcef87 100644
> > > --- a/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > +++ b/xen/scripts/basic/Makefile
> > > @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
> > >  # fixdep: 	 Used to generate dependency information during
> > > build process
> > >  
> > >  hostprogs-y	:= fixdep
> > > -hostprogs-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C)     += bin2c
> > 
> > Why does Linux need this but we don't?
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> 
> Its for building firmware into the kernel. It converts a blob/binary to
> a C-style header which can be included into the code. One of the many
> things in their scripts directory that we won't need for Kconfig support.

ISTR there was a fork of Kconfig maintained for easy inclusion into other
projects. I can't find it though, the closest I got was 
https://github.com/lacombar/kconfig/ which is clearly not the answer (not
touched for 5yrs).

Ian.