Subject: Re: compiling the 1.2 kernel
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/21/1996 22:30:14
Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> This form of "pilot error" occurs frequently enough that there really
> should be some sort of "config syntax version number" in the kernel
> source tree.. this can be checked by the config program.. if the
> version number is too high (or too low, in the event that config and
> the tree are changed incompatibly), config should barf with an error
> saying "get a version of config which matches this set of kernel sources"..

A truly excellent idea!

Perry