bareconfig doesn't work right.

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Oct 8 17:47:28 UTC 2005


On Saturday 08 October 2005 06:18, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:50:30PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> >The new "bareconfig" (which should probably be "allbareconfig") doesn't
> >actually enable all applets minus subfeatures.  Go into make menuconfig
> >afterwards and look at the results...
>
> Yes, i forgot that the "is not set" strings are needed to avoid falling
> back to the defaults. Fixed now and renamed to allbareconfig.
>
> There are a couple of applets which do not obey the FEATURE naming
> convention:
>
> SORT_BIG
> ASH
> NC_GAPING_SECURITY
> DEVFS
> NFSMOUNT
>
> ..where nc is obviously an exemption which can be dealt with separately.
> Rob, i thing the SORT_BIG and the NFSMOUNT are your's? If so please
> switch them over to FEATURE.

Yeah, sort big is my fault.  Fixing.

NFSMOUNT...  Wince.  Ok.  (I can't test NFS, but since it's glued onto 
mount...)

> >Nice idea, though.  At some point I'd like to make an interative thing
> > that switches on each individual symbol after an allnoconfig, and
> > switches off each symbol after an allyesconfig, resulting in a couple
> > hundred
> >configurations to make sure they all build and to compare how much space
> > each feature actually takes up.  But it won't be today. :)
>
> I'll look into building libbb in one go now..

Do you mean "gcc file1.c file2.c file3.c..." or do you mean libbb.a?

Rob



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