menuconfig .config snooping (was Re: 2.5.69 doesn't boot)

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2003-05-27 19:14 UTC #1 lore raw

[etienne@localhost linux-2.5.68]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
[etienne@localhost linux]$ tar -xzf linux-2.5.68.tar.gz [etienne@localhost linux]$ cd linux-2.5.68
[etienne@localhost linux-2.5.68]$ make menuconfig > log /boot/config-2.4.20-8:28: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MAX_USER_RT_PRIO
/boot/config-2.4.20-8:29: trying to assign nonexistent symbol MAX_RT_PRIO /boot/config-2.4.20-8:42: trying to assign nonexistent symbol HIGHIO /boot/config-2.4.20-8:65: trying to assign nonexistent symbol AMD_PM768 ........ edited ...........
[etienne@localhost linux-2.5.68]$ tail -3 log

# using defaults found in /boot/config-2.4.20-8
#
interrupted

Maybe linux-2.5 shall not use defaults of linux-2.4 ? Repeat solution (not that intuitive):
cp arch/i386/defconfig .config

Etienne.

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# Character devices
#
# CONFIG_VT is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
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No VT console is set.
Did someone noticed that if a user want to test Linux-2.5, he downloads for the first time a 2.5 kernel, extract and type
make menuconfig
and that takes its default (.config) from the only kernel available on his (really standard) distribution - a 2.4.* kernel.
That isn't true is it? In the absence of a .config file, does menuconfig really look for a configuration somewhere other than its own kernel source tree? Looks to me like it's getting the configuration from the defaults.
ecashin@meili bk-linux$ make menuconfig
make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts
gcc -Wp,-MD,scripts/.fixdep.d -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/fixdep scripts/fixdep.c
...
./scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
#

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  # using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
  #

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