Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:13:29 +0100 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Of hanging menuconfig [cause found] |
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Hi, make menuconfig will hang just after the parsing in the activate_menu loop in the case where the file scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog won't execute. Some error codes in this case are caught; but the case where the file scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog is a binary for the wrong architecture (case 126) is not caught. This is quite easy to trip if you are swapping between native and cross building - you get a couple of errors when you try and build make menuconfig for the first time about wrong binaries; in my case I just deleted those binaries and did the make again; however this failure is silent - it just hangs.
A make mrproper is probably the best thing to do when switching - but the error case needs catching, and I'm sure there are other similar cases.
Dave
P.S. This was on 2.4.18-rmk7 but I believe it is general. P.P.S. Is it a good idea to keep binaries in the scripts subdirectory?
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