Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261462AbTEARRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 13:17:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261489AbTEARRd (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 13:17:33 -0400 Received: from ore.jhcloos.com ([64.240.156.239]:26630 "EHLO ore.jhcloos.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261462AbTEARRc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 13:17:32 -0400 To: Larry McVoy Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , rmoser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel source tree splitting References: <200304301946130000.01139CC8@smtp.comcast.net> <20030430172102.69e13ce9.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030501005224.GA8676@work.bitmover.com> From: "James H. Cloos Jr." In-Reply-To: <20030501005224.GA8676@work.bitmover.com> Date: 01 May 2003 13:28:16 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 20 >>>>> "Larry" == Larry McVoy writes: Larry> It's a very little known fact but if you are in an RCS Larry> or SCCS (and BK looks like SCCS to make) source tree and the Larry> files are not checked out, you can just say Larry> make Larry> and make will look for a makefile, if there isn't one but there Larry> is a SCCS/s.[Mm]akefile it will check it out, look at the Larry> dependencies and start checking those out and keep doing it to Larry> satisfy the target. That has never worked for me with Linus' or Marcello's trees. It always falls down at some point or other. Usually it fails looking for something under include, 2.5 also dies in make oldconfig. -JimC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/