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authorUlf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>2018-10-03 04:58:27 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-10-03 04:58:27 +0200
commitabd08a0cb52db13c6c6403d5a3793c2fa0e062b6 (patch)
tree86f3f18fdec212feab7c74f63abceef1981ad79a /README.rst
parent2fda7e6d1bca1e3b07bded409645f926c8069fbe (diff)
Clarify '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' in how-to
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@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ Using ``.config`` files as Make input
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``.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