From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 09:48:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA15930 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:48:31 -0700 Received: from husky.cslab.vt.edu (jaitken@cslab.cs.vt.edu [128.173.41.87]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA15919 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:48:29 -0700 Received: (jaitken@localhost) by husky.cslab.vt.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id MAA06550 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:48:28 -0400 From: Jeff Aitken Message-Id: <199506231648.MAA06550@husky.cslab.vt.edu> Subject: Kernel configuration/compilation tool To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:48:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1049 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As has been discussed in the newsgroups lately, a snazzy kernel configuration & compilation utility would be very nice. I just spoke with Jordan about it, and he wasn't aware of anyone working on such a beast. I've volunteered to at least take a crack at it, so if anyone's already started on the same project, let me know and I'll be glad to help. Anyway, someone suggested that it be designed to look like the 2.0.5 install program, which I think is a good idea. I'm certainly open to (and would really like) some ideas as far as designing the thing goes. Let me know how you think it should be done, and I'll see what I can come up with in the next month or two (or three or four...;) PS. I seem to recall there being some chatter on -hackers about this a long time ago (several months at least, perhaps more like a year), and someone had a really good idea about it. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate the message I seem to remember, so if anyone can turn it up, please forward it to me. Thanks. -- Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu