Re: A simpler way to configure the source code?
Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Kaare Rasmussen <kar@kakidata.dk>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-30T20:05:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Kaare Rasmussen wrote: >>Perl's got one of those too, and I hate it ... >> > > You mean the endless number of questions when making Perl? > > No, the Linux kernel has a nice menu based script. It will remember the last > choice if you build more than one time and you only have to choose the areas > you'd like to change. and there's a feature that hides everything except new options. If you've built an older kernel, update, and there are new configuration options you can choose to just see those, and your past choices for older configuration parameters are kept. Handy when someone adds configuration parameters for yet-another-IDE chipset that you don't really give care about. -- Don Baccus Portland, OR http://donb.photo.net, http://birdnotes.net, http://openacs.org