Re: bug in 2.3.18ac9 net/Config.in

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:54:41 +0200 (CEST)

>
> >>>>> "Andrzej" == Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@pg.gda.pl> writes:
>
> Andrzej> Each section has *two* obvious errors: 1. missing ;then (or
> Andrzej> <newline>then 2. missing whitespace before "]"
>
> Andrzej> And not only xconfig has problem with it. If you run
> Andrzej> Configure (make config) you should see "syntax error near
> Andrzej> unexpected token `fi'" or "[: missing `]'" Menuconfig
> Andrzej> probably just ignores the error ...
>
> It was not meant to be syntactically correct, it was meant to
> illustrate the problem.
>

*This* problem (same config option available for different architectures)
does not exist in the current (newest 2.3.18-ac) version of xconfig parser...
However, the

if [ "$CONFIG_VAR_1" = "y" ]; then
bool 'Some option' CONFIG_VAR_2
else
tristate 'Some option' CONFIG_VAR_2
fi

is still a problem caused by the initial xconfig design
(of course only if CONFIG_VAR_1 *can* be defined).

Modifying this design seems not to be worth required work if a tool
replacing xconfig can be available soon (mconfig).

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