Re: Linux 2.6.0-test6

[Bill Davidsen]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:

> On Mon, 29 September 2003 19:19:30 +0000, bill davidsen wrote:
> > In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309281035370.6307-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Linus Torvalds  <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > | Interesting. I'm pretty sure I did a "make allyesconfig" just before the
> > | test6 release, so apparently x86 includes it indirectly through some path, 
> > | and so it only shows up on m68k and arm?
> > | 
> > | This, btw, is a pretty common thing. I wonder what we could do to make 
> > | sure that different architectures wouldn't have so different include file 
> > | structures. It's happened _way_ too often.
> > | 
> > | Any ideas?
> > 
> > If CPU cycles are no object the include names and order can be picked
> > out of the preprocessor output, add "-E" to the gcc call, pick only the
> > lines starting with "1" and a header name, save in a text file. The
> > problem is that config option (including arch) change the output, so
> > it's only useful as a rough check.
> 
> How is this better than adding "-H", as Jamie suggested?

I didn't see that in Linus' post, and still don't. I suspect you're
thinking of some post which came later. Linus asked for ideas, I supplied
one, sorry it offends you.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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