Messages in this thread | | | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: "mconf" and help texts | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2008 04:31:24 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Thursday 3. January 2008, Ph. Marek wrote:
> So I took a look at "Help", and saw that blob: > > Selected by: NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK && NET && INET && NETFILTER && > NETFILTER_XTABLES && (IP_NF_MANGLE || IP6_NF_MANGLE) && NF_CONNTRACK > || NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK && NET && INET && NETFILTER && > NETFILTER_XTABLES && NF_CONNTRACK || IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP && NET && > INET && NETFILTER && IP_NF_MANGLE && EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 > > That is a _bit_ unreadable.
What you see here is the internal representation of the select expression. To make it more easily readable, you could just cut off everything between && and || (it's the dependency of the symbol which does the select, the one before &&). The readable expression could be generated when needed, but it might be easier to just generate at the same time as the full expression (in menu_finalize).
> As a side-node - I cannot get xconfig to work (pkg-config);
Why exactly? What's the error message?
> is there some > way in menuconfig to see why some config option is disallowed? The location > tree shows some data ("-> Networking support (NET [=y])"), but not for all > dependencies.
I don't quite understand. The dependency for option itself is above the location tree and the for dependencies of the dependencies you have to look at their individual info.
> [Does xconfig allow enabling them while seeing this option?]
Only if you enable the missing dependency. This is insofar a little easier as they are linked if you enable the deubg info, so the prompt may be a little easier to find.
bye, Roman
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