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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:36:54 -0600 (CST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.59
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > 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?

"make depend" is basically gone.

> > 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?

In 2.5 things work differently, so no.

--Kai

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