Bug 146474

Summary:	Using "make xconfig" causes "CRYPTO" defines to vanish from .config file
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Paul Bergman <paul.bergman>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ernie Petrides <petrides>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	peterm, petrides, riel
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Description Paul Bergman 2005-01-28 17:47:20 UTC

Description of problem:
Using the "make xconfig" utility to build a kernel makes "CRYPTO"
defines disapear in the .config file.
This does not happen when using "make menuconfig".


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How reproducible:
Build kernel with "make xconfig".

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Comment 1 Ernie Petrides 2005-06-04 00:02:59 UTC

Hi, Paul.

The correct build-from-source procedure is as follows:

  1) make mrproper
  2) cp configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config .config  [or some other config]
  3) make oldconfig
  4) make dep
  5) make bzImage
  6) make modules

Using "make xconfig" is not supported.

Cheers.  -ernie