[TriLUG] some kernel building observations

rpjday rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Dec 26 06:34:54 EST 2001


On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Dan Chen wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:34:59AM -0500, rpjday wrote:
> >   just perusing the Makefile and Configure files for building a kernel,
> > and here's a few observations that people are free to either confirm or
> > refute -- either way works for me.  i'm just trying to understand these
> > scripts which are, IMHO, not as well written as they could be.  sigh.
> 
> Look for this to go away in 2.5 when CML2 is integrated. kbuild2.5
> already does a pretty good job of de-clobbering this mess.
> http://kbuild.sf.net

i recently downloaded the CML2 software and was going to make an
attempt at figuring it out.  given the imminent switch to CML2,
will there by any value to kbuild?  seems they try to solve the
same problem, and all indications are that CML2 will be the new
standard.

rday




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