Re: 2.5.19 - What's up with the kernel build?

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 30 May 2002 04:17:33 +0200


On Thursday 30 May 2002 04:00, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Well, I really like Keith's kbuild25 too, but Linus said (at least once)
> > he wanted an evolution to a new build system... not an unreasonable
> > request to at least consider. Despite Keith's quality of code (again --
> > I like kbuild25), his 3 patch submissions seemed a lot like ultimatums,
> > very "take it or leave it dammit". Not the best way to win friends and
> > influence people.
> >
> > If Keith is indeed leaving it, I'm hoping someone will maintain it, or
> > work with Kai to integrate it into 2.5.x.
>
> Oh well, it really wasn't my intention to start the good old kbuild-2.5
> thread at all.
>
> Anyway, I believe kbuild-2.5 has lots of useful ideas and I'll go pick
> pieces - from kbuild-2.5, from dancing-makefiles, from stuff I've done
> myself and work on improving the current build system. But I believe in
> make, and don't think I'll move away from it.

I wish you would just join the kbuild team and work with them instead of
against them. And what makes you think that it doesn't use make?

-- 
Daniel
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/