Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 12:40:12 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | Hugo van der Kooij <> | | Subject | Re: "make menuconfig" is dangerously broken... |
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> I had a lot of problems at getting 2.1.92 to boot, and run > at my Alpha machine. > > 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'!
Hugo.
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