Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:51:03 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config Makefile main.c Message-ID: <199511291851.KAA00310@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 95 10:46:28 PST." <199511291846.KAA00293@corbin.Root.COM>
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>>>That's impossible to do given the current scheme of 'everything is an
>>>option'. However, I think a much better solution to the problem is to
>>>have config kick out a 'remember to do a make clean' if the directory
>>>exists. If the user chooses not to do that, then it's their problem not
>>>ours.
>>
>>Why not make option lines add an entry to a common header file. Only
>>modules that export an option need to include the "option" header.
>>We could have a separate keyword "define" that gives the current behavior
>>so you can still do it the old quick way for debugging. I think that
>>a make depend would have much more value if this was done.
>
> The other idea is to add an option file for each supported option. Some
>people don't like this because it makes adding a new option a little more
>difficult (all the options would have to be listed in an options file, and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I just realized that this might be confusingly worded... I mean you would
have a options master file /sys/conf/options and /sys/i386/conf/options.i386
that would list all of the options. Config would use this in conjunction with
your kernel config file to produce individual options_foobar.h files (where
foobar is an option) that would/wouldn't have a #define FOOBAR.
>you need to add a #include plus a #ifdef to each file that uses the option).
>The idea is that the option file would have a name like "option_foobar.h" or
>something deterministic which would be autogenerated by config. The file
>would either have the #define or it would be null (consuming no disk space
>and would be relative fast access). This approach allows for fine control
>over the kernel options dependency.
>
>-DG
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