From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264338AbTDWV7y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:59:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264342AbTDWV7y (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:59:54 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:220 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264338AbTDWV7u (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:59:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:10:27 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "B. Joshua Rosen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is anyone manitaing make xconfig? Message-Id: <20030423151027.4d8bc4aa.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1051135494.4872.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1051135494.4872.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23 Apr 2003 18:04:55 -0400 "B. Joshua Rosen" wrote: | Make xconfig has been broken for some time now, is anyone still | maintaining it? I contacted the listed maintainer, Michael Elizabeth | Chastain, who said that she is no longer maintaining it. | | Make xconfig is pretty important, it's hard to imagine that it's going | to be allowed to rot. | | Here is the compile error for 2.4.21-rc1, | | /home/tmp/linux-2.4.20> make xconfig | rm -f include/asm | ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) | make -C scripts kconfig.tk | make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tmp/linux-2.4.20/scripts' | cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk | ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk | drivers/ide/Config.in: 46: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate | condition | make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/linux-2.4.20/scripts' | make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 That's a config file problem, not an xconfig problem. A patch for this has been posted several times. -- ~Randy