From: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
To: Gert-Jan Rodenburg <hertog@home.nl>,
Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Defaulting new questions in scripts/Configure?
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:09:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011025140955.A4942@vnl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011025032741.K24348@vnl.com> <20011025105921.GNXL27467.mail2.home.nl@there>
In-Reply-To: <20011025105921.GNXL27467.mail2.home.nl@there>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Gert-Jan Rodenburg wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2001 04:27, Dale Amon wrote:
> > I've just skimmed through the code in Configure to
> > see if there is a way to make it shut up and just
> > default everything new to NO so I can use it inside
> > a noninteractive script.
> >
> > Did I miss it or is it something that isn't there
> > to be found?
> >
> > I think I'd not be the only one to find it useful
> > to make it be seen and not heard during a
> > make oldconfig :-)
>
>
> no "" | make oldconfig
>
> Not sure if it works, but in the Linux From Scratch manual they do the
> oposite -> yes "" | make config
>
Jonathan Morton suggested the yes is the answer
as well. I tested both out and diffed against one
done manually. no seems to just die, yes does just
the right thing.
Thanks much to all who replied.
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2001-10-25 2:27 Defaulting new questions in scripts/Configure? Dale Amon
2001-10-25 2:43 ` Alexander Viro
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2001-10-25 13:09 ` Dale Amon [this message]
2001-10-25 13:44 ` Gert-Jan Rodenburg
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