On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cheng Renquan wrote: >> This group of patches improve the usability of kernel configuration system, >> mainly, >> >> 1. add symbol's value shown accompanied in config item's help message; >> 2. move the real plumbing functions code from mconf.c to menu.c, make them >> be able to be shared with other configuration methods; >> 3. add "symbol's value shown" support for gconfig/xconfig/config; >> >> 0001--KBUILD-add-symbol-value-to-help-find-the-real-depe.patch >> 0002--KBUILD-add-menu_get_ext_help-function-to-display-m.patch >> 0003--KBUILD-menuconfig-improvements.patch >> 0004--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-gconfig.patch >> 0005--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-qconfig.patch >> 0006--KBUILD-make-use-of-menu_get_ext_help-in-make-conf.patch >> >> I found gconfig still lack of "search by symbol" support, and that would be >> in another patch. >> >> Request for comments, thanks. > > Hi, > > I still like this idea a lot. However, with "make gconfig" I am > seeing a segfault when I click on "Firmware Drivers" in the main menu. > I only see this with these patches applied. > > Other than that, they look good to me. > > > Here's the gconfig info: > rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> make ARCH=x86_64 O=xx64 gconfig & > [1] 10722 > rddunlap@chimera:linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5> GEN /local/linsrc/tmp/linux-2.6.29-rc6-git5/xx64/Makefile > scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/x86/Kconfig > make[2]: *** [gconfig] Segmentation fault > make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 2 > make: *** [sub-make] Error > > > and from the kernel log: > > gconf[10868]: segfault at 0000000000000070 rip 00000000004111b6 rsp 00007ffff67cd6f0 error 4 Could you tell what distribution are you using? The versions of your glibc, gtk+2.0, and glibc? If you can correctly build other gtk+ programs? I have developed these patches on default Fedora 10 i686, it runs well, and today I have tested it under a latest Gentoo x86_64 desktop, all seems run well here. thanks, > > > Thanks, > -- > ~Randy > -- Cheng Renquan (程任全), from Shenzhen, China Dick Cavett - "If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
