[Buildroot] Help? What happend to the Help on 2009.11?

[Buildroot] Help? What happend to the Help on 2009.11?

[Michael S. Zick]

Help not being displayed by menu config on at least some things.

Found by:
clean clone of repository;
checkout tag 2009.11
make menuconfig

now select 'help' on the first screen.
Note lack of help text (it used to default to the general help).
What is that 'selected by: m' ??  I don't recall seeing that before.

exit back to first screen;
select 'Target Architecture'
select 'help'

"There is no help available for this option."
???
Say what?  That choice statement still has help text on it.

Makes it sort of hard to test my new help messages (on a different clone).

Mike

[Buildroot] Help? What happend to the Help on 2009.11?

[Michael S. Zick]

On Sat December 5 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> Help not being displayed by menu config on at least some things.
> 

Interesting...

Tried the update directions to update the config used by 2.6.31.5 -
It gets into a pissy-fit about our symbols not having the form
"CONFIG_*" - - - just ignore that.
(And the fact that make oldconfig re-writes it to suit itself.)

choice 
  prompt "whatever"
  help
    Some sort of meaningfull message.
- - - - - - -
endchoice

**DOES NOT** work in the kernel.org version either.
Yes, Virginia, they use that form see: choice of kernel compression.

This parser is badly broken and has been for years...
Might just be easier to patch the language description.  ;)

Mike

> Found by:
> clean clone of repository;
> checkout tag 2009.11
> make menuconfig
> 
> now select 'help' on the first screen.
> Note lack of help text (it used to default to the general help).
> What is that 'selected by: m' ??  I don't recall seeing that before.
> 
> exit back to first screen;
> select 'Target Architecture'
> select 'help'
> 
> "There is no help available for this option."
> ???
> Say what?  That choice statement still has help text on it.
> 
> Makes it sort of hard to test my new help messages (on a different clone).
> 
> Mike
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[Buildroot] Help? What happend to the Help on 2009.11?

[Michael S. Zick]

On Sat December 5 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> On Sat December 5 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> > Help not being displayed by menu config on at least some things.
> > 
> 

Parser is just fine, it is menuconfig that is broke.
make config
(The old style, nothing fancy, config - works just fine.)

Now that I can test my help messages....

Mike
> Interesting...
> 
> Tried the update directions to update the config used by 2.6.31.5 -
> It gets into a pissy-fit about our symbols not having the form
> "CONFIG_*" - - - just ignore that.
> (And the fact that make oldconfig re-writes it to suit itself.)
> 
> choice 
>   prompt "whatever"
>   help
>     Some sort of meaningfull message.
> - - - - - - -
> endchoice
> 
> **DOES NOT** work in the kernel.org version either.
> Yes, Virginia, they use that form see: choice of kernel compression.
> 
> This parser is badly broken and has been for years...
> Might just be easier to patch the language description.  ;)
> 
> Mike
> 
> > Found by:
> > clean clone of repository;
> > checkout tag 2009.11
> > make menuconfig
> > 
> > now select 'help' on the first screen.
> > Note lack of help text (it used to default to the general help).
> > What is that 'selected by: m' ??  I don't recall seeing that before.
> > 
> > exit back to first screen;
> > select 'Target Architecture'
> > select 'help'
> > 
> > "There is no help available for this option."
> > ???
> > Say what?  That choice statement still has help text on it.
> > 
> > Makes it sort of hard to test my new help messages (on a different clone).
> > 
> > Mike
> > _______________________________________________
> > buildroot mailing list
> > buildroot at busybox.net
> > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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