On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:51:32PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 4:03 pm, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > Let me propose you to test this as solution, that need no awk, only shell: > > Actually awk is one of the standard Single Unix Specification (version 3) > utilities and the kernel build uses it in a number of places, such as > arch/alpha/boot/Makefile, drivers/eisa/Makefile, scripts/ver_linux.
I saw that. If you will test my first replacements and it will be ok, i will go to this. > Your objection is a bit like saying "and don't use cat". I'm saying don't > call cat "gcat" when you just mean plain old cat. No it's not, really. I don't want to see pipes, fork()s, disk seek, when task can be done without it. I know, what awk is, and i hope it will have its better time. > > p.s. who is going to make alternative to GNU make ? ;D > > Me. Seriously. It's on my todo list, as part of the Firmware Linux project: Well. I didn't expect such answer! So, after my trying to deal with makefiles (there so many to cleanup and structure), i think it will be easy to do so. I did contacted (ft)jam developers, but didn't get any answer on current state of it vs GNU make. > http://lwn.net/Articles/215941/ > > Although as major projects go, it's about fifth down on the list after > getting > toybox up to speed, writing a proper bash replacement shell, getting tcc to > build an unmodified Linux kernel, convincing the uClibc guys to HAVE ANOTHER > RELEASE ALREADY (it's been a year and a half, I _sent_ a cake)... Thanks for information. > Today, I'm writing a gene2fs that produces streaming output (I.E. it works > like tar). It's not done yet... Good luck ! ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
