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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:28:10 +0100 (MET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.59
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Anders Gustafsson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:12:23PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > > > ./scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
> > > > arch/i386/Kconfig:1185: can't open file "drivers/eisa/Kconfig"
> > > > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
> > > 
> > > 	bk -r get -q
> > > 
> > > or just
> > > 
> > > 	bk get drivers/eisa
> > > 
> > > in this case. I guess this is becoming a FAQ.
> > 
> > It would be cool if the the Makefile let make knew about these dependencies
> > so they would be checked out automagically.
> 
> Unfortunately, the Makefile doesn't really know about the Kconfig files, 
> the "source drivers/whatever/Kconfig" commands are in Kconfig, and 
> duplicating them into the Makefile would be rather error-prone.

What about learning `make depend' a bit Kconfig syntax?

> Even if that was done, the Makefiles also cannot know about e.g. headers 
> included into C files, so it'd die at that point. At some point I hacked a 
> LD_PRELOAD library which would try to exec a "get" when open(2) fails, 
> which fixes gcc, kconfig and whatnotsoever. I suppose a better solution is 
> "checkout: get", though.

Isn't all of this in .depend?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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