Re: headersinstall of kvm.h does not work

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 13:26 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> +unifdef-$(CONFIG_HAVE_KVM) += kvm.h
>  unifdef-y += llc.h
>  unifdef-y += loop.h
> ----snip------
> 
> This patch does not work. Kbuild (scripts/Makefile.headersinst) does
> not check the config file, so kvm.h is never installed.
> 
> Sam is there an easy way to allow constructs like
> "unifdef-$(CONFIG_FOO)"?

That might be justifiable for HAVE_xxx which is a constant for any given
architecture -- but I predict that soon as we add such a facility, it
would get abused for stuff which really _is_ configurable. And that
would make me sad.

-- 
dwmw2

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