Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932541AbZAPOzx (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:55:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759253AbZAPOzl (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:55:41 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:43801 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759113AbZAPOzk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:55:40 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Rob Landley Cc: Jamie Lokier , Paul Mundt , Sam Ravnborg , "Mark A. Miller" , Bernd Petrovitsch , Leon Woestenberg , "H. Peter Anvin" , Embedded Linux mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:11:09 CST." <200901160011.11679.rob@landley.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <495FEEAF.5020005@zytor.com> <20090112103820.GF28564@linux-sh.org> <20090114025115.GB22154@shareable.org> <200901160011.11679.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1232117682_11157P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:54:42 -0500 Message-ID: <15458.1232117682@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1345 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_1232117682_11157P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:11:09 CST, Rob Landley said: > P.S. I still hope autoconf dies off and the world wakes up and moves a= way=20 > from that. And from makefiles for that matter. But in the meantime, I= can=20 > work around it with enough effort. What do you propose autoconf and makefiles get replaced by? % wc pidgin/configure* 34287 118303 1004074 pidgin/configure 2499 7684 81532 pidgin/configure.ac Which you rather code, 2.5K lines of autoconf or 35K lines of configure script? As long as there's enough diversity to require configure scripts,= there's going to be a demand for an autoconf-ish feature to ease writing = them. --==_Exmh_1232117682_11157P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJcJ+ycC3lWbTT17ARAmzHAJ9dXiFYWL88pY/jhJRdwBuHTNSLdQCgk+0Q BJXEaXpMuPEVKm7itutVlWE= =SXda -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1232117682_11157P-- -- 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/