Re: Building kernel on 1.0 - problems

Yes, menuconfig doesn't exhibit those errors previously reported with
xconfig but I still have another question.  My intent is to start with
the configuration used to build the Aurora distribution and simply
recreate the kernel as my first step before even attempting to make any
changes.  I find that the output of menuconfig modifies the 
configuration copied from the configs directory.  I wonder if there's a 
way to build the kernel without running menuconfig?

went to the linux-2.4.20-2.3sparc directory

make mrproper
cp configs/kernel-2.4.20-sparc64.config .config

make menuconfig

(saved the new .config file, oddly it differs from the one I just copied
it from)

These are the config differences,

diff configs/kernel-2.4.20-sparc64.config .config

53,54d52
< CONFIG_MAX_USER_RT_PRIO=100
< CONFIG_MAX_RT_PRIO=0
608d605
< CONFIG_CIPE=m
694a692,696
  > # Additional device driver support
  > #
  > CONFIG_CIPE=m
  >
  > #
876d877
< CONFIG_USB_LONG_TIMEOUT=y
933d933
< # CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KOBIL_SCT is not set
956a957
  > # CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_KOBIL_SCT is not set


Why would these changes be made, I would have expected the config file
to stay the same.



Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

>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.
>
>~spot
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