need help with vbox

[Ivan Voras]

Bruce Cran wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Desmond Chapman wrote:
>>  
>>> It's dependent upon kbuild. Since the developers have no intention of
>>> fixing the issue, I would like a tutorial on converting the kmk file
>>> to a normal Makefile.
>>>     
>>
>> What is kmk? Google only shows it's used with VirtualBox and nowhere
>> else. If it's something the authors of VirtualBox created, you'll have
>> to ask them.
>>   
> 
> Apparently it's the tool used to build kbuild
> (http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/wiki/kmk, http://kbuild.sourceforge.net/)
> projects.   It seems it's what the Linux kernel build system uses.

Well, this seems to sum it up:

"""
Why not use vanilla GNU make? There are several reasons:
...
# Finally, because we can. :-)
"""

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