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From: muller@sdcsvax.UUCP (Keith Muller)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Config won't deal with Options with numerics
Message-ID: <1940@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Jul-86 18:13:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.1940
Posted: Sun Jul 20 18:13:40 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jul-86 06:38:05 EDT
References: <518@zinfandel.UUCP>
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
Lines: 18
Keywords: 4.3BSD config options
Summary: easier solution

In article <518@zinfandel.UUCP>, berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) writes:
> Subject: config cannot handle OPTIONS with numeric characters.
> Index:	etc/config/config.y 4.3BSD
> 
> Description:
> 	When using config(8) to build kernels for 4.3BSD, if one follows the
> 	instructions in "Installing and Operating 4.3BSD on the VAX" and
> 	try to enable TCP compatibility with 4.2BSD, config gives a syntax
> 	error and creates an incorrect Makefile.

Somewhere in that manual there is a note that says numeric options need to be
enclosed in "". So:
	options "TCP_COMPAT_42"

Works just fine. (same reason you say: cpu "VAX750" in the conf file).

	Keith Muller
	University of California