[RFC] build system replacement
Christian MICHON
christian.michon at gmail.com
Thu May 8 07:15:54 UTC 2008
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I noticed that uclibc build system is broken.
> After I touch a file, running make won't rebuild it.
>
> I love hacking on makefiles as much as anyone else,
> but this was simply way below acceptable.
>
> So I decided to replace build system, using my
> experience in replacing build system for busybox.
>
> For busybox, I simply adapted Linux kernel build system.
> It is much bigger than needed for busybox and I ended up
> having unused features, but in the end of a day, it worked
> wonderfully ever since.
>
> This time, I decided "to make it right" and not carry
> kernel's build system idiosyncrasies.
>
I have not tested it yet, but could you tell if this time, ncurses is
still needed when doing "make oldconfig" ?
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Christian
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