Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:28:10 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.5.59 |
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Anders Gustafsson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:12:23PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > > > ./scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig > > > > arch/i386/Kconfig:1185: can't open file "drivers/eisa/Kconfig" > > > > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1 > > > > > > bk -r get -q > > > > > > or just > > > > > > bk get drivers/eisa > > > > > > in this case. I guess this is becoming a FAQ. > > > > It would be cool if the the Makefile let make knew about these dependencies > > so they would be checked out automagically. > > Unfortunately, the Makefile doesn't really know about the Kconfig files, > the "source drivers/whatever/Kconfig" commands are in Kconfig, and > duplicating them into the Makefile would be rather error-prone.
What about learning `make depend' a bit Kconfig syntax?
> Even if that was done, the Makefiles also cannot know about e.g. headers > included into C files, so it'd die at that point. At some point I hacked a > LD_PRELOAD library which would try to exec a "get" when open(2) fails, > which fixes gcc, kconfig and whatnotsoever. I suppose a better solution is > "checkout: get", though.
Isn't all of this in .depend?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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