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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:09:55 +0100
From: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
To: Gert-Jan Rodenburg <hertog@home.nl>,
        Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
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Subject: Re: Defaulting new questions in scripts/Configure?
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Gert-Jan Rodenburg wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2001 04:27, Dale Amon wrote:
> > I've just skimmed through the code in Configure to
> > see if there is a way to make it shut up and just
> > default everything new to NO so I can use it inside
> > a noninteractive script.
> >
> > Did I miss it or is it something that isn't there
> > to be found?
> >
> > I think I'd not be the only one to find it useful
> > to make it be seen and not heard during a
> > make oldconfig :-)
> 
> 
> no "" | make oldconfig
> 
> Not sure if it works, but in the Linux From Scratch manual they do the 
> oposite ->  yes "" | make config
> 

Jonathan Morton suggested the yes is the answer
as well. I tested both out and diffed against one
done manually. no seems to just die, yes does just
the right thing.

Thanks much to all who replied.

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