Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2003 21:27:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Etienne Lorrain <> | Subject | Re: menuconfig .config snooping (was Re: 2.5.69 doesn't boot) |
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[etienne@localhost linux-2.5.68]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) [etienne@localhost linux]$ tar -xzf linux-2.5.68.tar.gz [etienne@localhost linux]$ cd linux-2.5.68 [etienne@localhost linux-2.5.68]$ make menuconfig > log /boot/config-2.4.20-8:28: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MAX_USER_RT_PRIO /boot/config-2.4.20-8:29: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MAX_RT_PRIO /boot/config-2.4.20-8:42: trying to assign nonexistent symbol HIGHIO /boot/config-2.4.20-8:65: trying to assign nonexistent symbol AMD_PM768 ........ edited ........... [etienne@localhost linux-2.5.68]$ tail -3 log # using defaults found in /boot/config-2.4.20-8 # interrupted
Maybe linux-2.5 shall not use defaults of linux-2.4 ? Repeat solution (not that intuitive): cp arch/i386/defconfig .config
Etienne.
............................................ --- Ed L Cashin writes: > Etienne writes: > >>>> # Character devices >>>> # >>>> # CONFIG_VT is not set >>>> # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set >>> >>>No VT console is set. >> >> Did someone noticed that if a user want to test Linux-2.5, >> he downloads for the first time a 2.5 kernel, extract and type >> make menuconfig >> and that takes its default (.config) from the only kernel >> available on his (really standard) distribution - a 2.4.* kernel. > > That isn't true is it? In the absence of a .config file, does > menuconfig really look for a configuration somewhere other than its > own kernel source tree? Looks to me like it's getting the > configuration from the defaults. > > ecashin@meili bk-linux$ make menuconfig > make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts > gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/.fixdep.d -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 > -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/fixdep scripts/fixdep.c > ... > ./scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig > # > # using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig > #
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