[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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