Re: 2.0.33 -- misc. Alpha troubles

Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:37:18 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> > 3) make menuconfig is very broken, especially with regards to Alpha model
> > selection. I notice a fix for this has appeared in the pre2.1.89 patches
> > -- perhaps a candidate for 2.0.33 backport since segfaults in a menu
> > config system are not good...
>
> Yes. In fact the exact same patch works on 2.0.33. Would you please
> try this patch out:
>
> <ftp://ftp.shout.net/pub/users/mec/ftp-experimental/lukyanov.diff>
>
> To apply this patch, change the current directory to scripts/lxdialog
> first and then patch.
>
> Alexander Lukyanov wrote this patch, and It Works For Me (TM). If it
> works for you, then I will submit to to Alan Cox and ask him to include
> it in 2.0.34.

Works for me on an alpha... both 2.1.x and 2.0.33.

Ionut

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