Re: [PATCH] make miniconfig (take 2)

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On Nov 25, 2005, at 17:20:12, Rob Landley wrote:

On Friday 25 November 2005 16:09, Pavel Machek wrote:

Ouch, I guess I killed my .config :-(. It seems that interrupted
miniconfig.sh leaves .config in close to empty state...


That's why it insists you rename it in order to run it.

I intend to fix that somewhat in a newer version of the sucker by having the script intercept signals and restore .config on the way out, but it can't be fully reliable (not against kill -9) because kconfig overwrites .config and the script is repeatedly running allnoconfig. (I can probably bypass the makefile and feed it some strange command line argument, but what Kconfig to run it on gets us into architecture dependence issues the make file handles for us...)


I got interested so I started writing a Perl-based replacement that actually reads the source config into program memory and writes copies out of that RAM each time. I ran into a problem (although I can't reproduce it anymore) where the resultant configs had identical options but slightly altered whitespace or ordering, which naturally broke the diff method that miniconfig.sh used.


I'm not sure what I did wrong last time, it worked this time. My
miniconfig is 6K instead of 46K, good. Still its quite long. Thanks!


You mentioned you set a lot of options. :)

I agree scripts/miniconfig.sh is clumsy. I'm thinking about improvements (both to how it works and to the user interface), but I need to catch up on some other stuff first...


I have a bit of time to tinker. I'll send you my perl version once I get it working and test it out a bit. It shouldn't be too hard to add the ability to use .config and rewrite that when exiting.

One other minor nit: If you pass a config file from a previous version to miniconfig.sh, it will return the full config file because nothing makes it match the original. Theoretically it should probably allnoconfig with the full config first and use that for the rest, before removing lines.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett


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