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Subject: Re: svn commit: r189537 - projects/jbuild/usr.sbin/config
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On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> maybe a naive question, but isn't there a way to construct
> these Buildfile's (and Buildfile.dirdep, assuming they are
> not there by mistake) automatically from the existing Makefiles ?

In the simple cases, the Makefile to Buildfile conversion is
straight forward. However there are enough "special" cases where
the files have to be cleaned up.

> It's going to be a nightmare to support both Makefile
> and Buildfile.

I'm not sure this is true. The Buildfiles aren't intended to be
merged back to head -- they will stay in the project branch.

--
John Birrell