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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:21:53AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
[...]
> What is the compelling reason to write two dozen or more different files,
> rather than having a single "options.h" header that everyone includes?

Because if one changes, you get to recompile everything.  Thanks, but
no.  config(1) takes very good care at not touching a file if it hasn't
changed.

> Are we worried about dependency checking on changing options, or what?  I
> haven't built a kernel in years in which I changed any options without a =
make
> clean; does anyone do that still?  (I'm not saying they don't; I've just =
not
> seen it.)

Well, if you have that many cycles to spare...

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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