Re: [RFC PATCH] kconfig: use long options in conf

[Michal Marek]

On 29.7.2010 16:47, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:23:49AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>> On 29.7.2010 10:13, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:36:22PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>>> Hi Michal.
>>>>
>>>> I cooked up the following to introduce long options in conf.
>>>> But in the process I dropped the short options. Is this OK?
>>>
>>> On top of this patch I did another two.
>>> They fixup the *nonint_oldconfig targets:
>>>
>>> nonint_oldconfig:
>>> - renamed to listnewconfig
>>> - print new options to stdout (to better support redirect)
>>> - no longer saves a new configuration
>>> - does ot exist with a failure code if there is new options
> but this kills its usefulness. nonint_oldconfig is used so you can script
> the use of a generated configuration (think distro kernel RPMs). if something
> is not set, it fails listing what's not set. otherwise it'll save the
> configuration and whatever script is using it can proceed.
> "listnewconfig" is a new, different target to me.

How about
new=$(make listnewconfig)
if test -n "$new"; then
    echo "Please set the following options:" >&2
    echo "$new" >&2
    exit 1
fi
? Wouldn't that be the same as nonint_oldconfig before?

Michal
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