"make oldconfig" should show the defaults being taken

Dale R. Worley (worley@ariadne.com)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:48:32 -0500

When executing "make oldconfig", the Configure script nicely prints
all the configuration questions whose answers are being taken from
your old .config file. But it doesn't print the answers, so the
resulting output is useless to document the configuration or explain
what the CONFIG_* symbols mean.

The following patch causes the default answers to be printed, followed
by "[defaulted]", so you know they are not user input.

Dale

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--- scripts/Configure.orig      Mon Jan 13 11:09:46 1997
+++ scripts/Configure   Mon Jan 13 11:12:37 1997
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 #
 function readln () {
        if [ "$DEFAULT" = "-d" -a -n "$3" ]; then
-               echo "$1"
+               echo "$1$2 [defaulted]"
                ans=$2
        else
                echo -n "$1"
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