worst part about linux kernel is the configuration how TF is a person new to the kernel supposed to figure out which CONFIG_FOOBAR variable to turn on? i haven't the faintest clue
seriously make menuconfig is WAY better than anything else out there in the autotools/CMake/NIHbuildSytem world for complex projects
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@hugelgupf was complaining about the tooling (I agree that Kbuild is way better than most build systems) but rather the fact that it's common for option dependencies to not be properly defined in the Kconfig files. What's hard is to figure out the implicit deps -
To me that's a slightly different problem than the setup being hard for newcomers. Rather than the setup being buggy and those bugs being specially harming for newcomers. It's not like those bugs don't hit seasoned developers either.
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You are probably right. CMake gives me slight headache, and the autotools tendencies to check for everything under the sun, relevant or not, ......
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