Re: grub-1.97

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 17:39 +0100 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 11:02 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs:
> > Since there is only one Makefile, I could take a shot at creating a
> > patch to 
> > address this problem.  Would you be interested in such a patch? 
> 
> That's wrong that there is just one Makefile. Well it's true that there
> is just one file named like that, but the main Makefiles are the
> conf/*.mk files generated from conf/*.rmk by genmk.rb.
> 
> There wasn't yet much talk about improving our build system.
> Bean just made it less complex in his lib branch (IIRC he called it
> something like that)
> But except of this nobody had much interest/time to improve or even
> directly replace our build system by something better.
> Okuji already objected against automake because according to him it
> doestn't satisfy the needs for our build system.

Uhm correction: I totally forgot about Vladimirs one Makefile
implementation.
Sorry Vladimir.

But IIRC even about this there wasn't much talk about.


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Felix Zielcke
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