Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: make oldconfig | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:57:50 +0100 (MET) | From | (Dick Streefland) |
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| "make oldconfig" seems to fail to work. | | I was upgrading from 1.3.68 to 1.3.70. I did "make mrproper", patched | the sources, did "make oldconfig". No questions were asked, the | process completed, but finally the configuration had almost nothing | to do with the previous one. | I also noted "NEW" suffixes since 1.3.68 when doing the usual "make | config". I don't know why that suffix appeared. | I thought "make oldconfig" should ask for all previously unasked | questions.
This works only when you copy the ".config" from your previous source tree to the new one. In a clean source tree, there is no ".config". Therefore, the defaults file "arch/<arch>/defconfig" will be used, which contains defaults for all config options. Only when there is no default setting for a config option, the "(NEW)" suffix is displayed.
-- Dick Streefland //// Tasking Software BV dicks@tasking.nl (@ @) The Netherlands ------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo------------------------
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