Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:40:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:55 -0500 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:59398 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:38:49 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Dave Jones Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Linus Torvalds , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:22:01 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:38:37 +1100 Message-ID: <18645.1009503517@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:22:01 +0100 (CET), Dave Jones wrote: >On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >> That is such an unutterably horrible concept that the very tentacles >> of Cthulhu himself must twitch in dread at the thought. The last thing >> anyone sane wants to do is have to maintain two parallel build systems >> at the same time. > >Funny, I could have sworn I read this was Keith's intention at least >for a few pre's. Maybe I misinterpreted his intentions. Only long enough to prove that kbuild 2.5 built kernels that worked. And to give unconverted architectures a kernel that had both old and new kbuild in it for their conversion. Once kbuild 2.5 has proved it works, kbuild 2.4 is coming out. - 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/