Re: Is anyone manitaing make xconfig?

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:10:13 +0100


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:04:55PM -0400, B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> Make xconfig has been broken for some time now, is anyone still
> maintaining it? I contacted the listed maintainer, Michael Elizabeth
> Chastain, who said that she is no longer maintaining it.
>
> Make xconfig is pretty important, it's hard to imagine that it's going
> to be allowed to rot.
>
> Here is the compile error for 2.4.21-rc1,
>
> /home/tmp/linux-2.4.20> make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tmp/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> drivers/ide/Config.in: 46: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate

the config.in is broken, not xconfig..

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