2002-08-20 14:05:26

by Greg Banks

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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

Roman Zippel wrote:
>
> I looked through the list and except from real syntax errors nothing
> prevents an automatic conversion.
> I have to manually fix things like CONFIG_ALPHA_NONAME, which is first set
> by a choice statement and later redefined. My new parser can't deal with
> this, because user input is given the highest priority.

Well then, there's something we need to look at fixing in the CML1
corpus.

Greg.
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2002-08-20 17:47:59

by Roman Zippel

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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Greg Banks wrote:

> > I have to manually fix things like CONFIG_ALPHA_NONAME, which is first set
> > by a choice statement and later redefined. My new parser can't deal with
> > this, because user input is given the highest priority.
>
> Well then, there's something we need to look at fixing in the CML1
> corpus.

I considered detecting such cases, but it's too much work for something
that is easy to find and fix manually. The alpha config.in is actually the
only config file I could find that does something like this.

bye, Roman