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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> >  find . -name Config.help -exec cat {} >Configure.help \;
> 
> Back-seat drivers.  Answers for everything, understanding of nothing.

Did you read this in _How to Win Friends And Influence People_?


> Sorry, it's not *nearly* that simple.  For one thing, one of the fourteen
> billion requirements I've had dropped on me is that Marcelo doesn't want
> any symbols in his help file that aren't actually in the 2.4 rulebase.
> 
> So I'd have to generate a custom version for him.  I used to have the
> machinery to do that by parsing magic comments in my master file.
> Until Linus blew it apart.

Linus also gave you C code which, slightly modified, could discern which
CONFIG_xxx help texts were needed for a given tree.

How hard is it to maintain a database where the key for each entry is
easy an unambigious?

	Jeff



-- 
Jeff Garzik      | "Why is it that attractive girls like you
Building 1024    |  always seem to have a boyfriend?"
MandrakeSoft     | "Because I'm a nympho that owns a brewery?"
                 |             - BBC TV show "Coupling"
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