Re: Kernel source tree splitting

From: James H. Cloos Jr. (cloos@jhcloos.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 12:28:16 EST


>>>>> "Larry" == Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:

Larry> It's a very little known fact but if you are in an RCS
Larry> or SCCS (and BK looks like SCCS to make) source tree and the
Larry> files are not checked out, you can just say

Larry> make

Larry> and make will look for a makefile, if there isn't one but there
Larry> is a SCCS/s.[Mm]akefile it will check it out, look at the
Larry> dependencies and start checking those out and keep doing it to
Larry> satisfy the target.

That has never worked for me with Linus' or Marcello's trees. It
always falls down at some point or other.

Usually it fails looking for something under include, 2.5 also dies
in make oldconfig.

-JimC

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