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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:24:02 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> So if somebody really wants to help this, make scripts that generate
> config files AND Configure.help files from a distributed set. And once you
> do that, you could even imagine creating the old-style config files

Something like:

	find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf" -exec cat {} \; > Configure.help 

or changing the tools to look for 

	Documentation/Configure/CONFIG_SMALL_BANANA

??

Alan



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