Errors when building a kernel

[Tom H]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 05:08:03 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Are you editing ".config" manually?
>
> Yes ...
>
>> if yes, why don't you use "make menuconfig" (or another config target)
>> because there are dependencies that you can't account for when using
>> vi/nano/emacs/whatever.
>
> ... OTOH if you get an error for /bar/staging/foo, you easily can find
> CONFIG_FOO and "disable" it. If you use menuconfig instead it's not
> that pleasant. Dependencies are seldom an issue (were never an issue,
> IIRC I run into this issue for the first time).

My experience with "make menuconfig" is that I sometimes/often can't
turn off an option because another option depends on it.

There's nothing difficult with "make menuconfig" because you can
search for a specific config value with "/" except that you like to
ask for help but never seem to like the advice that's given.