From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] kconf: Check for eof from input stream.
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:32:53 +0100
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Hi,

On Monday 09 January 2006 04:59, Ben Collins wrote:

> > Then something is wrong with your automatic build. If the config needs to
> > be updated and stdin is redirected during a kbuild, it will already
> > abort.
>
> And what should be directed into stdin? Nothing. There should be no
> input going into an automated build, exactly because it could produce
> incorrect results.
>
> BTW, this is the automatic build that Debian and Ubuntu both use (in
> Debian's case, used for quite a number of years). So this isn't
> something I whipped up.

That just means Debian's automatic build for the kernel has been broken for 
years. All normal config targets require user input and no input equals 
default input. Only silentoldconfig will abort if input is not available.

bye, Roman
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