Re: "make menuconfig" is dangerously broken...

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 22:57:42 +0100 (BST)


Hi Hugo.

>> In the end it turns out, doing "make menuconfig" was the
>> main source of problems.
>>
>> Using "make config" or "make xconfig" will produce correct
>> results, including even support for generic PCI-IDE-DMA.
>>
>> I am inclined to say that "make menuconfig" should be wrapped
>> with a BIG warning that it is unsafe with certain input scripts.
>> An example of such input is: drivers/block/Config.in

> make xconfig is also known to be 'unsafe'!

Perhaps somebody should pay some attention to debugging those scripts.
If nobody else is doing so, I'll have a look at them and see what I
can sort out...

Incidentally, on 2.0.33 at least, "make menuconfig" works fine in an
xterm...

Best wishes from Riley.

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