Re: dealing with excessive includes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 
> > Would be a worthy goal imho. Can it be done with scripts? 
> 
> Making them self-contained or checking whether they are? :-)
> 
> The latter is simple, just compile each of them into dummy object files, which
> should give no compile errors.

It's _not_ simple. Not at all.

We have tons of issues that depend on config variables and architecture 
details. 

It's hard.

		Linus
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