[plug] Woody 'make xconfig' won't run, 'make menuconfig' does.

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

Go into the /usr/src/linux (or whatever you called it) dir as your X user
and type:

blah$ su -c "make xconfig"

There are other ways too, which I'm sure you'll be told about in a few
minutes time :)

Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel" <cottmain at plug.linux.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: [plug] Woody 'make xconfig' won't run, 'make menuconfig' does.


> Hello plug,
> thanks for the good stuff on 'Which linux is that ?'
>
> I may have overlooked something obvious on my woody:
> I can use 'make menuconfig' but 'make xconfig' doesn't come up.
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Daniel.
> [send someone to linuxconf for free!]
> ----------------------
> # make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/scripts'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o
> tkparse.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkcond.o
> tkcond.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkgen.o
> tkgen.c
> gcc -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
> cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
> chmod 755 kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19/scripts'
> wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
> Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
> environment variable
> Error in startup script: invalid command name "button"
>     while executing
> "button .ref"
>     (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51)
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 1
>
>
>
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