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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:16:03 CDT."
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:16:03 -0500, 
Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org> wrote:
>I think one thing to note is that dependencies is that if you are smart
>about it, dependencies -really- do not even change when your .config
>changes.
>
>What about a system where Linus runs "make deps" -once- before he
>releases a tarball.  This in turn generates dependency information
>(perhaps not in purely make format) which includes 'ifdef CONFIG_xxx'
>information embedded within.  We know that make can support ifeq
>CONFIG_xxx for example...

Then people apply patches and break.  Please read the list of mkdep
bugs before suggesting partial fixes.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kbuild/kbuild-2.5-history.tar.bz2,
makefile-2.5_make_dep.html.  I want a system that fixes _all_ the bugs,
not just some of them.

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