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From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:54:33 -0600
Subject: Re: Pb compiliing linux-arm [another one]

Hi Russell,

Someone said:
Someone> Thing is if you have a default value for a choice and you
Someone> select another, the previous (default) value doesn't get discarded.
Someone> So you get two definition from the same choice prompt.  The 'choice'
Someone> command should discard all variable but the one selected, not just
Someone> defining the one that you select.

The 'choice' command already does that in all interpreters.  This is not
the problem.

Russell> It's actually more complicated than that.  'choice' does not
Russell> behave the same way as the other commands in the config file
Russell> - it is never grayed out under any circumstances, and I also suspect
Russell> that even when it is supposed to be grayed out and no options
Russell> selected, it still defines one option.

Yes, this is the problem.  It's another xconfig bug that's been there
for five years.

Axel Boldt sent me a patch to fix this so it will be fixed in the next
round of xconfig bug fixes.

Michael


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