Re: [kbuild-devel] Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

From: John Levon (moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 18:20:20 EDT

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    On Sat, 19 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

    > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's
    > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either
    > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it.

    in fact it was originally in i386 too. I noticed and fixed it,
    didn't even think about the other archs.

    > This sort of thing would never ship in CML2, because the compiler
    > would throw an undefined-symbol warning on BLK_DEV_ST. The temptation
    > to engage in sarcastic commentary at the expense of people who still
    > think CML2 is an unnecessary pain in the butt is great. But I will

    Most of these people don't seem to have been subscribed to kbuild-devel
    anyway, and missed most of the commentary over the past months.

    > - if [ "$CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ST" != "n" ]; then
    > + if [ "$CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST" != "n" ]; then

    john

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