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Bug List
21 January 1999
Michael Elizabeth Chastain, <mailto:mec@shout.net>

- If a variable has a value of "m" in the previous .config file,
  and a type of bool in the Config script, then all the interpreters
  get confused.  This happens frequently when someone changes a
  tristate option to a bool option and people in the field have
  .config files with a value of 'm'.  For example: CONFIG_PSMOUSE.

- CONFIG_MODVERSIONS has incorrect dependencies.  If you have a
  problem building the kernel, and you have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS turned
  on, do a 'make dep' followed by 'make clean' before you try anything
  else.

- 'make dep' uses multistage dependencies, so the .hdepend file contains
  'touch' commands.  As a result, building a kernel often touches files
  in include/linux/*.h.  This messes up CVS and other systems which like
  to rely on file dates.

- 'make dep' fails for C files which include other C files, such as
  drivers/cdrom/sbpcd2.c.