[BusyBox] Re: Non-CONFIG options

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Dec 13, 2002 at 06:50:42PM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> the recent busybox variants have config options which do not start with
> CONFIG_. This makes it very difficult for my distribution configuration
> tool to parse: it has the busybox configuration as part of it's kconfig
> based configuration system, so I extract all the Config.in files and
> replace the CONFIG_ with CONFIG_BB_, then I run my 'make [x|menu]config'
> and re-search-and-replace CONFIG_BB_ by CONFIG_. 
> 
> This works fine as long as all options start with CONFIG_, but fails
> with new ones like DOSTATIC. Could these options be prefixed with
> CONFIG_ as well or is there a special reason not to do it? 

I rather like not having to put "CONFIG_" in front of everything.
I had to hack up kconfig to make it not require that, so I must
say I'm reluctant to lose that ability.  How about we teach your
kconfig system to also lose the artificial "CONFIG_" requirement.
It makes the system much more usable IMHO.

> to configure the whole root filesystem. I hope that it can be merged
> with buildroot in the near future - Erik, did you find some time to have
> a look at my stuff? 

It will probably not happen till next week when I take a bit 
of time off for the Christmas holiday,

 -Erik

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