[Toybox] [PATCH] new Android toy: log

[Rob Landley]

On 06/25/2016 04:17 PM, enh wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> (even if we had the #ifdefs, being able to point to an arbitrary
> directory for the generated files would be independently useful to me
> because it would let me stop checking in generated files.)

Hmmm, I'd assumed you'd just drop a symlink if you needed a different
location. I can make it configurable, but it's a bit tricky (have to set
the default in more than one place because configure is shell syntax and
Makefile is makefile syntax, and yes this is already an issue for CC.)

> but like i said, no one's working on either of these things right now,
> so it probably doesn't make sense for you to look at doing anything
> until i can promise i'd actually investigate using it in a reasonable
> timeframe. maybe next year...

I prefer to have things ready for when you have time. Ordinarily your
time is more of a limiting factor. (Not the past few weeks, but that's
startup funding crises for you...)

>>> this isn't something that anyone's currently actively working on
>>> though. we have other major build system upheavals to get through
>>> first :-)
>>
>> I'm working on it, but I $DAYJOB isn't giving me a lot of air at the
>> moment. (I'm either riding down a fourth startup or I'll get
>> retroactively paid for the past 6 weeks. No idea which yet.)
>>
>>> (bionic is soong-only at this point in master. [most of] the makefiles
>>> have been deleted.)
>>
>> You can delete toybox's makefile for the actual build and just run the
>> shell scripts directly (at least to get a host version), and all we use
>> from kconfig is the .config file. (And I could probably make a sed
>> invocation generate a defconfig, or repurpose the scripts/config2help.c
>> plumbing. I've been meaning to write a full kconfig replacement for
>> years, it just hasn't made it up the todo list...)
> 
> the kconfig stuff stopped working for me a while back (long enough
> that i forget why) --- i've just edited .config directly for a very
> long time now. (i think there was a thread on the list about using the
> awk version instead around that time.)

Right, I need to bump kconfig replacement up near the top of my todo list.

I need like a month's vacation in an otherwise empty hotel room to catch
up on _just_ my toybox todo list. (In the meantime, back to the
"potential customer needs an SDK by monday" crisis du jour...)

>> Rob

Rob