Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:25:36 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." |
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Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>: > [esr] > > Besides, right now the configurator has a simple invariant. It will > > only accept consistent configurations > > So you are saying that the old 'vi .config; make oldconfig' trick is > officially unsupported? That's too bad, it was quite handy.
Depends on how you define `unsupported'. Make oldconfig will tell you exactly and unambiguously what was wrong with the configuration. I think if you're hard-core enough to vi your config, you're hard-core enough to interpret and act on
This configuration violates the following constraints: (X86 and SMP==y) implies RTC!=n
without needing some wussy GUI holding your hand :-). -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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