Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935864AbWK1LTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:19:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935865AbWK1LTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:19:33 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:28624 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935864AbWK1LTc (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:19:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:19:23 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Lukasz Stelmach cc: LKML Subject: Re: autoconf.h and auto.conf missing In-Reply-To: <456B6B02.9060105@poczta.fm> Message-ID: References: <456B6B02.9060105@poczta.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1465 Lines: 41 Hi, On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Lukasz Stelmach wrote: > Greetings. > > It seems that someone has broken *conf programs in 2.6.18 because Unmodified 2.6.18? > only "make silentoldconfig" recreates autoconf.h and auto.conf > properly after configuration (.config) has changed. That's correct. The other config targets only touch the .config file and a dependency on it regenerates all other build relevant files (by calling silentoldconfig). > I do everything as I always have done. > 1. create an empty dir and put my current .config there > 2. make O=dir oldconfig > 3. compile, everything seems to be OK here > 4. do some changes to .config and make oldconfig once again > BZZZZZT > 5. auto.conf and autoconf.h don't change along with .config and when > I build the kernel once again new settings don't take effect. > > I discovered I have to make silentoldconfig to regenerate autoconf > files. However, this *seems* to force rebuilding of all the objects > instead of, what it has always done, only those that depend on > altered configurations. I cannot reproduce this, you have to provide some more detailed information, e.g. please send your original .config and what exactly you changed there. bye, Roman - 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/