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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r189537 - projects/jbuild/usr.sbin/config
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On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:33:31PM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> 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.

ok, i thought this was not just a private project but something
that might end up in the main tree ? Sorry if i misunderstood.

cheers
luigi