Re: choice Help Sections

From: Giacomo Catenazzi (cate@debian.org)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 09:21:11 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:

> ben@benpharr.com said:
>
>>Has anyone else noticed the availability of only one help section in
>>"choice" blocks when using make menuconfig (and others maybe?)?
>>
>
>>The best example of this is selection of "Processor family". No matter
>>which option is highlighted when Help is selected, it always gives the
>>help for CONFIG_M386.
>>
>
> AFAIK the help text for choice entries has _always_ been implemented the
> way you observed - a single entry with the name of the first choice, which
> helps you decide what to choose - not individual entries for each possible
> choice.
>
> It looks like the current Configure.help is broken. I suggest you submit
> patches to correct it.

The other items are ready for CML2. One of the Configure.help maintainers
is also the maintainer of CML2, so...

        giacomo

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