/usr/sbin/config dependancy check?

Chris Laverdure dashevil at sympatico.ca
Thu Sep 23 11:01:13 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:49, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 23), Chris Laverdure said:
> > Is there any hope of getting some dependancy checking in config? I
> > can't imagine it being that difficult to implement and it would clear
> > up a lot of noise on the mailing lists and IRC channels.
> > 
> > Plus, well, it just makes sense.
> 
> In the last episode (Sep 23), Chris Laverdure said:
> > Alright, here's an example that hit me.
> > 
> > # /usr/sbin/config CUSTOM
> > Error: Option DDB requires the following:
> > Options KDB
> > #
> 
> Looks like config has dependency checking after all :)  If it didn't,
> you would likely have gotten a compile or link error when building the
> kernel.

Sorry for the confusion, but that wasn't a real config run, just a
proposed method of displaying dependency issues.



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