Re: Generating valid random .configs

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Wed, 30 May 2001 09:27:40 +0100


Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
>
> Recently, I posted a request here to send your .config files and I
> received a good number of them. (thanks!).
>
> Now I want to generate even more different configurations, and a random
> .config generator would be ideal. If I write a program which randomly
> outputs "y", "m" and "n" and pipe its output through make config, will the
> generated .configs always compile? Yes. the best thing is to go ahead and
> try it (which I am doing at the moment) but I like to know the theoretical
> answer;)

Every once in a while I run this and fix everything that doesn't
compile. It has been
2 months since I last did that, so I should do it again soon..

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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