From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264258AbTDWV6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:58:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264263AbTDWV6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:58:08 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:57357 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264258AbTDWV6H (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:58:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:10:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "B. Joshua Rosen" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is anyone manitaing make xconfig? Message-ID: <20030423231013.A10133@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "B. Joshua Rosen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1051135494.4872.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1051135494.4872.26.camel@localhost.localdomain>; from bjrosen@polybus.com on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:04:55PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 06:04:55PM -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 the config.in is broken, not xconfig..