From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 18:47:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA18518 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 18:47:39 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA18455 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 18:47:21 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA23900; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:46:35 +0800 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:46:34 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Gary Palmer cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool In-Reply-To: <1828.806892608@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Looks good to me, but the question has to be WHERE ON EARTH DO YOU GET > THE COMPILE SERVER FROM? I don't think we have anywhere near the > resources available currently to host such a project, nice though > it may be :-( Well, I've got four 486's here that aren't doing much at the moment (two of our postdocs are away on a work term, and a grad student is back in Toronto).... ;-) I think I might be able to sneak a few CPU cycles for this task, even if only for a few days just to see how it goes. :) > I've already stated that I'm interested in doing a libdialog based one, > and from my past experience with libdialog, I have a sneaky suspicion that > I'll rewrite it along the way :-( If we can standardize on a "kernel config config", that will take us a long way towards a consistent set of utilities for kernel setup. The front-end interfaces can come later. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org