Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:43:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:43:39 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:30994 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:43:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3D8E72DE.6020502@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:48:14 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kai Germaschewski CC: Roman Zippel , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel , kbuild-devel Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] linux kernel conf 0.6 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2006 Lines: 67 Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > AFAICS, "quiet" only means the same thing as the traditional "make > oldconfig", but suppressing questions where the answers are known. (Which > I think is fine) yeah, that's fine with me too > I was just referring to the following, which really is not in the subtle > change category: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > [kai@zephyr linux-2.5.make]$ rm .config > [kai@zephyr linux-2.5.make]$ make > *** > *** You have not yet configured your kernel! > *** > *** Please run some configurator (e.g. "make oldconfig" or > *** "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig"). > *** > make: *** [.config] Error 1 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > whereas lkc changes this to run (the quiet) make oldconfig automatically. hmmmm, looks like something got broken somewhere, then. The proper behavior for this example is cp arch/$arch/defconfig .config Do a 'make oldconfig' or 'make config' with no .config, in a 2.4 kernel. Please fix... :/ > Same thing for > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > [kai@zephyr linux-2.5.make]$ cp ../config-2.5 .config > [kai@zephyr linux-2.5.make]$ make > make[1]: Entering directory > `/home/kai/src/kernel/v2.5/linux-2.5.make/scripts' > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/kai/src/kernel/v2.5/linux-2.5.make/scripts' > *** > *** You changed .config w/o running make *config? > *** Please run "make oldconfig" > *** > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Since people run automated builds, erroring out is IMHO preferable to > dropping into interactive mode, which likely happens when you run make > oldconfig. agreed Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/