make menuconfig

make menuconfig

[Voicu Liviu]

Hi dear list,
I have heard that "make menuconfig" for kernel 2.6-beta1 is deprecated? 
Am I correct? If yes then how do I get into the config?
Alos tryied to run 'make menuconfig' from tcsh and got error like: 
Missing }.

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Re: make menuconfig

[Voicu Liviu]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:48:47AM +0300, Voicu Liviu wrote:
> 
>>Hi dear list,
>>I have heard that "make menuconfig" for kernel 2.6-beta1 is deprecated? 
>>Am I correct? If yes then how do I get into the config?
> 
> You are wrong - make menuconfig is still OK.
> Mak sure to read the document made by dave j. before playing too much
> with 2.6.
> It is at: www.codemonkey.org.uk - but I cannot get in contact with it
> right now.
> See instead:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/
> 
> 
>>Alos tryied to run 'make menuconfig' from tcsh and got error like: 
>>Missing }.
> 
> Works for me. Could you provide exact error-message etc.

liviu@starshooter liviu $ su
Password:
liviu has logged on pts/0 from :0.0.
liviu has logged on pts/1 from :0.0.
liviu has logged on vc/1 from local.
liviu has logged on vc/2 from local.
starshooter /root# cd /usr/src/linux
starshooter src/linux# make menuconfig
Missing }.
starshooter src/linux#

Liviu
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Re: make menuconfig

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:48:47AM +0300, Voicu Liviu wrote:
> Hi dear list,
> I have heard that "make menuconfig" for kernel 2.6-beta1 is deprecated? 
> Am I correct? If yes then how do I get into the config?
You are wrong - make menuconfig is still OK.
Mak sure to read the document made by dave j. before playing too much
with 2.6.
It is at: www.codemonkey.org.uk - but I cannot get in contact with it
right now.
See instead:
http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/

> Alos tryied to run 'make menuconfig' from tcsh and got error like: 
> Missing }.
Works for me. Could you provide exact error-message etc.

	Sam

Re: make menuconfig

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 12:27:01PM +0300, Voicu Liviu wrote:
> >
> >Works for me. Could you provide exact error-message etc.
> 
> liviu@starshooter liviu $ su
> Password:
> liviu has logged on pts/0 from :0.0.
> liviu has logged on pts/1 from :0.0.
> liviu has logged on vc/1 from local.
> liviu has logged on vc/2 from local.
> starshooter /root# cd /usr/src/linux
> starshooter src/linux# make menuconfig
> Missing }.
> starshooter src/linux#

Too little context to determine where it goes wrong.
I tried with tcsh here with success.

Try the followings steps:

1) Do not compile as root. In general does as little as possible as root.
Only the kernel installlation requires root priviliges.

2) Try to run "make -n", that may hint where is goes wrong.

3) Do not locate the kernel src in /usr/src/linux - it will conflict with
glibc header files. No matter what a HOWTO say otherwise.

4) Try another shell, for instance bash.
Not that the kernel build should rely on bash only, but an approach to
get your kernel to compile.

	Sam

Re: make menuconfig

[Nick Warne]

On Monday 14 February 2005 12:45, Roman Zippel wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote:
> > So I can ignore the debug prints?
>
> Yes.

OK, thanks for your replies.  I am since trying 2.6.10 again (with new GCC 
version and system memory this time), and the messages do not appear in later 
version of menuconfig as you stated.

Nick
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Re: make menuconfig

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote:

> So I can ignore the debug prints?

Yes.

bye, Roman

Re: make menuconfig

[Nick Warne]

On Monday 14 February 2005 12:12, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote:
> > Are the  optimize  &&  ? lines normal?
>
> They are only debug prints, but I'm quite sure they are fixed in recent
> versions.
>
> > This is from a current tree that has an uptime of > 50 days
>
> Could you specify "current tree"?

Yes, sorry, my bad wording.  This is kernel 2.6.4 from kernel.org.  I meant 
_my_ 'current' tree that runs perfect on the 233 box.  I can't seem to 
upgrade to later 2.6.x kernels as I get curious swapd oops after a few hours, 
but that is another story.

So I can ignore the debug prints?

Thanks,

Nick


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Re: make menuconfig

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Nick Warne wrote:

> Are the  optimize  &&  ? lines normal?

They are only debug prints, but I'm quite sure they are fixed in recent 
versions.

> This is from a current tree that has an uptime of > 50 days 

Could you specify "current tree"?

bye, Roman

make menuconfig

[Nick Warne]

Hi all,

I only just noticed this, but been building kernel source for a long time.  On 
my 233 over ssh, it is a bit slow, and I just noticed this output when doing 
a 'make menuconfig':

make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
optimize  &&  ?
optimize  &&  ?
optimize  &&  ?
optimize  &&  ?

Are the  optimize  &&  ? lines normal?  I investigated, but can't work it out.  
This is from a current tree that has an uptime of > 50 days - I just needed 
to change one option in the build, so the existing .config is good.

Thanks,

Nick
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make menuconfig

[Michael Knigge]

Hi,

I get this little error message if I isse a "make menuconfig"

crash:/usr/src/linux-2.5.40# make menuconfig
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.40/scripts'
make -C lxdialog all
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.40/scripts/lxdialog'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.40/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.40/scripts'
/bin/sh ./scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, 
parsing..............................................................
............/scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu74: line 56: syntax error 
near unexpected token `fi'
./scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu74: line 56: `fi'
...............done.

Saving your kernel configuration...

*** End of Linux kernel configuration.
*** Check the top-level Makefile for additional configuration.
*** Next, you may run 'make bzImage', 'make bzdisk', or 'make 
install'.

Bye
  MK