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[Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey guys,

I added submenus to "make menuconfig".
At the moment only one submenu-level is allowed.
Menuconfig is still far from perfect, but better as before.

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[Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey,

as you probably recognized, after the latest imrpovements to the build 
system one new problem came up:
"make menuconfig" is really slow now.

I was thinking a while and the only solution I found so far is the way 
it's done in the Linux Kernel:
One file, e.g. Configure, which holds all the "menuadd" statements. It 
would also be time to add a help system ( Configure.help ).
This should solve the performance problems and I would also add the 
profiles function.

Any comments?

Regards
   Heiko

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> I was thinking a while and the only solution I found so far is the way 
> it's done in the Linux Kernel:
> One file, e.g. Configure, which holds all the "menuadd" statements. It 
> would also be time to add a help system ( Configure.help ).
> This should solve the performance problems and I would also add the 
> profiles function.
> 
> Any comments?

We could also do this version:
openssh 
		<- normal build script
openssh.config 
	<- stuff for make menuconfig
openssh.help 
	<- help text for make menuconfig

To get rid of the perfomance issue, I would create out of the file 
*.config and *.help the 2 big file Configure, Configure.help .

This version wouldn't be the same mess as just the 2 big files in general...

I think I'll do that version.

cya
   Heiko

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> We could also do this version:
> openssh         <- normal build script
> openssh.config     <- stuff for make menuconfig
> openssh.help     <- help text for make menuconfig
> 
> To get rid of the perfomance issue, I would create out of the file 
> *.config and *.help the 2 big file Configure, Configure.help .
> 
> This version wouldn't be the same mess as just the 2 big files in 
> general...
> 
> I think I'll do that version.
> 

Maybe we could put the .config and .help files somewhere else and not
in the build directory because there are a lot of files already.

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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>> We could also do this version:
>> openssh         <- normal build script
>> openssh.config     <- stuff for make menuconfig
>> openssh.help     <- help text for make menuconfig
>>
>> To get rid of the perfomance issue, I would create out of the file 
>> *.config and *.help the 2 big file Configure, Configure.help .
>>
>> This version wouldn't be the same mess as just the 2 big files in 
>> general...
>>
>> I think I'll do that version.
>>
> 
> Maybe we could put the .config and .help files somewhere else and not
> in the build directory because there are a lot of files already.
> 

You're right and it's only getting more.

What's about a the directories:
build/scripts/configuration
build/scripts/configuration/help

Regards
  Heiko

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> You're right and it's only getting more.
> 
> What's about a the directories:
> build/scripts/configuration
> build/scripts/configuration/help

Hmmm...then it might just be easier and out both the .config and
the .help file at build/scripts/configuration. What do you think?

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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>> You're right and it's only getting more.
>>
>> What's about a the directories:
>> build/scripts/configuration
>> build/scripts/configuration/help
> 
> 
> Hmmm...then it might just be easier and out both the .config and
> the .help file at build/scripts/configuration. What do you think?

Then there's too much stuff in there.
I implemented it now following the above suggestion and it looks good so 
far.

I'll check it in now.


Heiko

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Diego T. <dt...@co...>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:54:21AM -0400, Heiko Zuerker wrote:

> profiles function.
> 
> Any comments?

i always thought that Configure.help an so (kernel style config) was a nightmare to maintain.

In the other hand, there are lots of benefits from using the same config files as the kernel (menuconfig/xconfig will work without problems).

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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] make menuconfig

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Diego Torres wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 09:54:21AM -0400, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
> 
>>profiles function.
>>
>>Any comments?
>>
> 
> i always thought that Configure.help an so (kernel style config) was a nightmare to maintain.
> 
> In the other hand, there are lots of benefits from using the same config files as the kernel (menuconfig/xconfig will work without problems).

That's unfortunately not the case.
Also in the next Kernel release all this configuration stuff is changed 
anyway.

I implemented it in a way it should be easy to maintain:
script
script.config
script.help

Once my test compile is through, I check the stuff in.

cya
   Heiko