2.4.5-ac20 problems with drivers/net/Config.in and make xconfig

[Steven Cole]

I got this familiar error with make xconfig and 2.4.5-ac20 (same as 2.4.6-pre6)

drivers/net/Config.in: 149: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate condition
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac20/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

I applied this patch written by Keith Owens (thanks Keith):

--- linux/drivers/net/Config.in.original	Thu Jun 28 09:52:02 2001
+++ linux/drivers/net/Config.in	Thu Jun 28 09:52:25 2001
@@ -146,7 +146,11 @@
       tristate '  NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support' CONFIG_NE2_MCA
       tristate '  IBM LAN Adapter/A support' CONFIG_IBMLANA
    fi
-   dep_bool '  EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers' CONFIG_NET_PCI
+   if [ "$CONFIG_ISA" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_EISA" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_PCI" = "y" ]; then
+     bool '  EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers' CONFIG_NET_PCI
+   else
+     define_bool CONFIG_NET_PCI n
+   fi
    if [ "$CONFIG_NET_PCI" = "y" ]; then
       dep_tristate '    AMD PCnet32 PCI support' CONFIG_PCNET32 $CONFIG_PCI
       dep_tristate '    Adaptec Starfire support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE $CONFIG_PCI $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

And then I got:

[root@spc linux]# make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac20/scripts'
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5-ac20/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

So, I used the old reliable make menuconfig, and it worked OK and 
2.4.5-ac20 built successfully.

Steven