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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

I think that automatically running 'make gconfig' or whatever if DISPLAY
is set is a bad idea and I think the user should be asked.  Personally I
find menuconfig to be a better choice and I think that the user should
be prompted for which ever configuration tool they want.  Maybe if
DISPLAY is set it can ask for the gtk/qt frontend?

Jeremy

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:45, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:32, -={|TooManyMirrors|}=- wrote:
> > Yes, but if i select the same kernel that is already installed it
> > doesn't go to menuconfig, I'm pretty sure it used to though. I guess I
> > could dive into the linux spell but i hear there is much magic there.
> > thought it might be an easy fix or recent change.
> >
> > toomanymirrors
> 
> here on my system saying yes to configure the kernel ends up with make 
> menuconfig running.
> What you are reporting might be  due to the spell now trying to bring up 
> the 
> GUI interface if DISPLAY is found set. It does this regardless of whether 
> root has access to DISPLAY and if it fails I think it might go straight 
> onto 
> the make portion.
> try either running 
> xhost +
> or cast linux from a vt while X isn't running or at least a vt that doesn't 
> have DISPLAY set.
> Anyone using an  NVIDIA card and their drivers (that wouldn't install if X 
> was 
> running ) would likely have not found this problem either as they would 
> have 
> been compiling kernels outside of X for six months or more. 
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