Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-10T16:47:22Z

On Mar 10 2007 19:35, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:26:03PM +0100]
>| On Mar 10 2007 19:06, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>| >[Vladimir - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 04:05:42PM +0300]
>| >| Here's the problem:
>| >| 1. Unpack the kernel sources, run make menuconfig.
>| >| 2. Mark the necessary options.
>| >| 3. Pick "Save an alternate configuration file", enter a filename (e.g. /root/kernelcfg)
>| >| 4. Pick "Exit".
>| >| ->5. Configurator exits without saving. If type "make bzImage", it builtd all the default options.
>|
>| Well, you already saved explicitly and did not make any further changes
>| after that, so it won't ask again on exit (perhaps all Office Suites do
>| the same). In fact, if you do exactly that, menuconfig assumes you do not
>| intend to build a kernel (since you did not save to .config).
>
>Hi, Jan
>
>so you think that is a normal behaviour? I mean sould we leave all as
>it is?

Yes. If you want to save your current configuration to two files, save it
twice:

Save an alternate configuration file -> /root/kernelcfg
Save an alternate configuration file -> <just enter, use .config>

Jan
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