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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:19:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] linux kernel conf 0.6
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:

> > I intentionally only printed a message and errored out in this case, and I
> > think that's more useful, particularly for people doing
> >
> > make all 2>&1 > make.log
> >
> > which now may take forever waiting for input.
> 
> You should have tried this first :) :

Yup, obviously ;) Sorry about that.

> 
> $ make | cat
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roman/src/linux-lkc/scripts'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roman/src/linux-lkc/scripts'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roman/src/lc'
> make[1]: `conf' is up to date.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roman/src/lc'
> ./scripts/lkc/conf -s arch/i386/config.new
> #
> # using defaults found in .config
> #
> *
> * Restart config...
> *
> Enable loadable module support (MODULES) [Y/n/?] y
>   Set version information on all module symbols (MODVERSIONS) [N/y/?] (NEW) aborted!
> 
> Console input/output is redirected. Run 'make oldconfig' to update configuration.
> 
> make: *** [include/linux/autoconf.h] Error 1

I'm still not happy at least for the ".config does not exist" case. Since 
when I forget to "cp ../config-2.5 .config", I don't really want "make 
oldconfig", I want to do the forgotten cp. I think there's hardly anyone 
who wants oldconfig in that case, rather menuconfig/xconfig or a cp like I 
mentioned. Since kbuild/lkc does not know, it shouldn't make that (bad) 
guess.

If .config exist but is not current, I think in 99% of the cases we really 
want make oldconfig, so that's fine.

--Kai


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