Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions

Thunder from the hill (thunder@ngforever.de)
Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:37:11 -0600 (MDT)


Hi,

On 2 Jun 2002, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> 3. You have to remember the "-f Makefile-2.5" arguments to make,
> otherwise it will use the old makefile system. This seems to mess
> things up so that subsequent make commands fail.
> I tried to "mv Makefile-2.5 Makefile" to overcome this problem, but
> it doesn't work because the original Makefile appears to be needed
> for extracting kernel version information.

There was no intention to reinvent the wheel. The only _replacing_
Makefile is a _merged_ version of them. Then you'll also have to find any
Makefile-2.5s and revert them to Makefiles. This will take a moment, and
is not yet intented.

Regards,
Thunder

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