On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:38:31PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Avoiding gotos for the purpose of avoiding gotos is absolutely
silly (as the compiler translates them to jumps, which are the
same in asm) and positively harmful (for the legibility of the
code; I wish I had goto in mksh???).
From my Commodore Basic days I still know gotos and spaghetti. I know it
will be translated to jumps, but I thought we are programming in C and not
asm, because the readability is better. But maybe I just read too much about
python recently ;-)
I managed to build an amiga kernel from linux-source-3.8 (in experimental)
with this command:
make KBUILD_DEBARCH=m68k ARCH=m68k CROSS_COMPILE=m68k-linux-gnu- deb-pkg
You can just run dpkg-buildpackage -am68k???
Because linux-source, just like linux-m68k git, does not contain a debian
directory. The linux source package (note the missing dash) does contain a
debian directory, but that fails because gencontrol.py does not run on my
box (OSError: missing file or directory with no hint what file is missing).
With this is should be easy to (cross-) build kernel-images for m68k with
additional patches and minimized config, since this does not use Debian's
gencontrol.py. Maybe I will try to understand that later.
I don???t think that???s a good thing. And patches can be added to the
normal process with not too much difficulty??? but YMMV, and it???s up
to the person doing the work.
You are right, that this is not the way to build official debian kernels,
but as far as I understand it is the correct way to build local kernels from
linux-source. This has the nice benefit, that it works identically with the
linux-m68k source, and it does not run gencontrol.py.
IMHO we should try to get to as close to the normal Debian processes
as possible though. I???d wager a guess and say that, if you ask, for
example, waldi or bwh in IRC, they???d be happy to help (as opposed to
see you doing some n??n-standard stuff).
The kernels I am building are not for official use, only for testing of new
patches. In the long run I want to understand how the offical Debian images
are built again, but unfortunately my vacation comes to an end and the new
semester is starting... it will be at least a month before I will have time
to study the Debian processes again. I may try to get crest running again
with the IDE disk before that.
Christian
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