Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 02.09.15 at 19:50, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * target only the xen/ directory tree (i.e. not the toolstack, stubdoms
> or docs)

As just said in another reply, allowing for ./configure to pass down
options to the configure mechanism in xen/ would seem desirable (as
long as configuring in xen/ alone would still work).

> * split top level config bits to not affect xen/ tree (currently only
> XSM_ENABLE / FLASK_ENABLE do)

As already said by someone else, this shouldn't be necessary. In fact
I would hope there's (other than debug-build-or-not) no top level
setting affecting both tools and hypervisor.

> * convert xen/ to Kbuild first and merge this in (since Kconfig relies
> on Kbuild-y bits which can be undone but if we're going to go to Kbuild
> in the end why undo it and then redo it)

To be honest I'm not convinced we want to pull in Kbuild as a whole.
Achieving the ability to do out-of-tree builds (viewed as desirable
by Andrew, and I've also long been meaning to see whether this
could be made work, as that's also my preferred build setup in other
projects) should be possible without importing everything (and
perhaps even without importing anything).

Jan


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