Re: Building kernel on 1.0 - problems

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 13:28, Ken Roser wrote:
> I've built the kernel before on i386, but with Aurora 1.0 I'm having 
> difficulties right from the start with "make xconfig"
> 
> When selecting "Save and Exit" from xconfig, I get the following errors:
> 
> ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable 
> (CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16).
> ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable 
> (CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS).
> ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable 
> (CONFIG_SCSI_FCAL).
> 
> I even get the same errors if I use xconfing and load the configuration 
> file in configs/kernel-2.4.20-sparc.config
> 
> Now I do see that 2 of these variables are set in the 
> kernel-2.4.20-sparc.config file if I don't use it in xconfig.  So why is 
> xconfig not setting them in the file it writes?
> 
> Can someone please give advice as to what I'm doing wrong

Using xconfig? ;) Seriously, I never use xconfig. Its very likely got
some brokenness wrt parsing sparc32. Try using menuconfig instead.

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