On Mit, 2002-09-25 at 12:43, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles R. Twardy wrote: > > > Sorry. Me again. I wiped /usr/src/linux and rsync'd again and now the old > > problem is back: "make xconfig" breaks complaining: > > > I wouldn't say it's your fault necessarily. I occasionally find > bugs in the kernel configuration scripts. The Linux kernel > configuration can be very complicated. As as last resort you can > edit the .config by hand and run make oldconfig. Basically you'll > have some feature: > # CONFIG_BLAH is not set > # Just change it to: > CONFIG_BLAH=y > # or > CONFIG_BLAH=m
Directly editing the config manually is dangerous, but a nice method that even Linus seems to use is to delete the lines of the items you want to change and then make oldconfig. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast