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| author | Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> | 2018-10-03 04:58:27 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-03 04:58:27 +0200 |
| commit | abd08a0cb52db13c6c6403d5a3793c2fa0e062b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 86f3f18fdec212feab7c74f63abceef1981ad79a | |
| parent | 2fda7e6d1bca1e3b07bded409645f926c8069fbe (diff) | |
Clarify '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' in how-to
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ Using ``.config`` files as Make input ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ``.config`` files use Make syntax and can be included directly in Makefiles to -read configuration values from there. This is why unset values are written out -as ``# CONFIG_FOO is not set`` (a Make comment) in ``.config``. +read configuration values from there. This is why ``n``-valued ``bool``/``tristate`` +values are written out as ``# CONFIG_FOO is not set`` (a Make comment) in ``.config`` +(allowing them to be tested with ``ifdef`` in Make). If you make use of this, you might want to pass ``--sync-deps`` to ``genconfig`` and include ``deps/auto.conf`` in your Makefiles instead of |