Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does

Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:42:11 +0100


Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:

[...]

> I know, it makes it even harder to see what the initialization order
> is. Some are controlled by the Makefile/subdirs order, some by special
> calls in the code.

Just to repeat myself: This is clearly a problem for tsort(1): Give
restrictions of the form "This has to come after that" (perhaps a special
comment at the start of the file containing the init function?), tsort that
and pick the order out of the result. Should be a few lines of script. No
central repository for the dependencies, no messing around with half the
world to fix dependencies. Plus they become explicit, which they aren't
today.

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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