Messages in this thread | | | From | (Jon Tombs) | Subject | Re: make oldconfig | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:41:50 +0100 (MET) |
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Ulrich Windl said: > > "make oldconfig" seems to fail to work. > > I was upgrading from 1.3.68 to 1.3.70. I did "make mrproper", patched
"make mrproper" removes your old config!
> the sources, did "make oldconfig". No questions were asked, the
you will recreate the defaults (linus') oldconfig!
> 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.
it does, if the NEW options are not in .config, which you removed with make mrproper.
-- Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
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