Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 04:11:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii> To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, jaitken@husky.cs.vt.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool Message-ID: <199507281111.EAA05390@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <1838.806892666@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jul 28, 95 01:51:06 am
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> In message <Pine.BSI.3.91.950728082658.23040M-100000@aries>, Brian Tao writes:
> > First and foremost, the util should consult some sort of database
> >file that lists available options, valid argument lists and
> >dependencies. This will allow other people to write different front-
> >ends. I would like to try my hand at Tcl/Tk programming, so that
> >would make it an X application. Someone else could try writing one
> >using libdialog and a third person could put together a Web/CGI
> >interface. That last one intrigues me... put up a "FreeBSD Kernel
> >Drive-Thru" page where you select config options via a forms
> >interface, then after some waiting, a new kernel is presented to you
> >for downloading.
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> P.S. Sudden after-thought - it'd have to be platform independant also...
> i.e. not be i386-centric in the files it generates...
>
> Gary
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Hi,
At one time I had crude one for 1.X that was in the contrib directory.
I've been slowly re-working it here to add that database and such.
How about a pre-processer that takes a LINT config file and generates
a basic input file that can be used as input.
Gary (The Other One)
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