[PATCH] one more fix for make defconfig in syslogd

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 11 September 2006 7:43 am, Tito wrote:
> Yes, i agree with you, but on the other side 
> we cannot ship a broken build system,
> so or we fix or remove make defconfig
> or at least -Werror
> or we fix the code.

I'll probably take -Werror out for the actual 1.3.0 release (since new 
versions of gcc always seem to introduce new really _STUPID_ warnings), but 
introducing new warnings during development _should_ be painful.

> I personally will not touch the makefiles
> magics............

Denis Vlasenko has a rewrite of our build system based on the Linux kernel's 
build system (kbuild) that I'm really looking forward to.  I've glanced at 
the patches but the kbuild maintainer pointed Denis at the version of kbuild 
used to build klibc as a better starting point (and something the kernel 
itself is likely to resync with soon, the project-specific assumptions are 
broken out better).  I'm waiting either for the drop based on that or for 
Denis to say he's not going to do that, and Denis is off having fun elsewhere 
in the tree at the moment. :)

We're already using the kernel's menuconfig, and the kernel has its own build 
system and dependency generation and stuff based on that which gets way more 
development effort and scrutiny than we do.  Seems logical to sync with that 
if we can pull it off...

Rob
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