linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

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Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:47:01 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.


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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