[Buildroot] Help? What happend to the Help on 2009.11?

[Michael S. Zick]

On Sat December 5 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> Help not being displayed by menu config on at least some things.
> 

Interesting...

Tried the update directions to update the config used by 2.6.31.5 -
It gets into a pissy-fit about our symbols not having the form
"CONFIG_*" - - - just ignore that.
(And the fact that make oldconfig re-writes it to suit itself.)

choice 
  prompt "whatever"
  help
    Some sort of meaningfull message.
- - - - - - -
endchoice

**DOES NOT** work in the kernel.org version either.
Yes, Virginia, they use that form see: choice of kernel compression.

This parser is badly broken and has been for years...
Might just be easier to patch the language description.  ;)

Mike

> Found by:
> clean clone of repository;
> checkout tag 2009.11
> make menuconfig
> 
> now select 'help' on the first screen.
> Note lack of help text (it used to default to the general help).
> What is that 'selected by: m' ??  I don't recall seeing that before.
> 
> exit back to first screen;
> select 'Target Architecture'
> select 'help'
> 
> "There is no help available for this option."
> ???
> Say what?  That choice statement still has help text on it.
> 
> Makes it sort of hard to test my new help messages (on a different clone).
> 
> Mike
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