I'm forwarding this as it was apparently not cc'd back to linux-arm. 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 -- Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science." -- Donald E. Knuth, TAoCP vol 3 unsubscribe: body of `unsubscribe linux-arm' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
