Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bug in 2.3.18ac9 net/Config.in | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 28 Sep 1999 14:47:48 +0200 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> writes:
David> On 28 Sep 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> So we hack Config.in because menuconfig is broken, that really >> sounds like a stupid solution to me. >> >> Having the following in Config.in is _not broken: >> >> if [ "$ARCH" = "ppc"] bool "foo" CONFIG_SOME_RANDOM_THING fi if [ >> "$ARCH" = "mips"] bool "bar" CONFIG_SOME_RANDOM_THING fi >> >> Is _not_ broken as long as the condition cannot invoke the question >> twice. This is just one example of brokenness in the menu based >> config programs.
David> As long as you add the proper ';then' to those if's, it works David> ok with menuconfig too, if I'm not all wrong... It's just David> xconfig that doesn't work.
Oh this was not meant to be a perfect running example, I am just pointing out the principle. However someone changed fs/partition/Config.in because of exactly this, recently. The result was that things got messed up for non x86 architectures again and had to be mended by hand.
Jes
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