linux-kernel - Re: Heads-up: Linux make menuconfig .config vs. XDG_CONFIG_HOME ~/.config/ clash

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikOPn-MF08QVyeY3F7mexDyp47pog@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:44:16 -0400
From:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
To:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
Cc:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Waldo Bastian <bastian@....org>,
	Ryan Lortie <desrt@...rt.ca>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Heads-up: Linux make menuconfig .config vs. XDG_CONFIG_HOME
 ~/.config/ clash - perhaps resolve it while 3.0 appears?

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com> wrote:
> Renaming the .config file is obviously going to cause a lot of pain, and
> there seems to be very little gain.
>
For the record, it is already possible to rename the config file
through the KCONFIG_CONFIG environment variable:

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt:

KCONFIG_CONFIG
--------------------------------------------------
This environment variable can be used to specify a default kernel config
file name to override the default name of ".config".

 - Arnaud
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