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Kernel Configuration Help Texts on sunsite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Feb 5 08:47:32 1995
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 14:28:31 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: boldt@emile.math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Kernel Configuration Help Texts on sunsite
Organization: Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Dept. of Mathematics
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
Keywords: kernel configuration help
Hi,
I uploaded kernel_config_help.tgz to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming;
it will eventually move to /pub/Linux/kernel.
Here is the README:
These are the Linux kernel configuration help texts.
Configure.help contains the help texts.
Configure is a modified configuration script which uses
Configure.help to provide context sensitive help
during kernel configuration.
Whenever you answer a configuration question with
"?", you'll get help for that particular option.
To install:
$ mv /usr/src/linux/Configure /usr/src/linux/Configure.old
$ mv Configure* /usr/src/linux
and configure your kernel as usual with "cd /usr/src/linux; make config".
You should still be able to apply kernel patches since the
configuration script is very rarely patched. However, if there are
problems, just restore your old Configure script.
The latest version of the help texts is always available on the WWW as
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/config_help.html
And the LSM entry:
Begin3
Title: kernel_config_help
Version: 05FEB95
Entered-date: 05FEB95
Description: Help texts for the configuration options of Linux kernel
version 1.1.85 and friends, containing gentle explanations
of many acronyms and pointers to the documentation.
A replacement for the standard Configure script, which
uses these help texts, is provided.
Keywords: kernel configuration help
Author: boldt@math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt)
Maintained-by: boldt@math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/kernel
16 kb kernel_config_help.tgz
Copying-policy: GPL
End
Enjoy,
--
Axel Boldt * boldt@math.ucsb.edu * http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/
