I proof-read it and tested it and It Works For Me (TM).
The patch is a little mal-formed (bad "}" in column 1 of line 17),
so I re-diffed it.
Linus, please apply this patch.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"
diff -u -r -N linux-2.4.0-test5/Documentation/kbuild/config-language.txt linux/Documentation/kbuild/config-language.txt
--- linux-2.4.0-test5/Documentation/kbuild/config-language.txt Sun May 21 20:18:08 2000
+++ linux/Documentation/kbuild/config-language.txt Thu Aug 3 11:28:05 2000
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@
This verb displays /prompt/ to the user, accepts a value from the user,
and assigns that value to /symbol/. /word/ is the default value. Legal
input values are any ASCII string, except for the characters '"' and '\\'.
+Configure will trap an input string of "?" to display help.
The default value is mandatory.
diff -u -r -N linux-2.4.0-test5/scripts/Configure linux/scripts/Configure
--- linux-2.4.0-test5/scripts/Configure Mon Jun 19 13:45:52 2000
+++ linux/scripts/Configure Thu Aug 3 11:27:52 2000
@@ -419,7 +419,14 @@
function string () {
old=$(eval echo "\${$2}")
def=${old:-$3}
- readln "$1 ($2) [$def] " "$def" "$old"
+ while :; do
+ readln "$1 ($2) [$def] " "$def" "$old"
+ if [ "$ans" = "?" ]; then
+ help "$2"
+ else
+ break
+ fi
+ done
define_string "$2" "$ans"
}
#
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