Re: Defaulting new questions in scripts/Configure?

From: Dale Amon (amon@vnl.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 08:09:55 EST


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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