From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild: shorthand ym2y, ym2m etc
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:57:10 +0100
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On Sunday 30 January 2005 20:37, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> We have in several cases the need to transpose a i'm' to 'y' in the Kbuild
> files.

I assume you mean what you write in the text rather than what the example 
shows. If so, why not use this:

obj-$(CONFIG_SND:m=y) += last.o

> One example is the following snippet from sound/Makefile:
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_SND),y)
>   obj-y += last.o
> endif
>
> [...]
>
> To be complete the full set would be:
>
> ym2y
> ym2m
> empty2y
> empty2m
> y2y
> m2y
> y2m
> m2m
> yx2x
> mx2x
>
>
> Would that be considered usefull?

That would take the kbuild makefile obfuscation contest to the next level. Who 
should understand that stuff?

Cheers,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX PRODUCTS GMBH
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