Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934983AbXJPVYe (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:24:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761564AbXJPVYZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:24:25 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:62019 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754325AbXJPVYY (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:24:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:23:36 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Markus Trippelsdorf Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , LKML , kbuild devel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL (updated)] kbuild updates Message-Id: <20071016142336.f9129f40.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20071016211101.GA4093@gentoox2.trippelsdorf.de> References: <20071015205018.GA24467@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20071016211101.GA4093@gentoox2.trippelsdorf.de> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2235 Lines: 62 On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:11:01 +0200 Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:50:18PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > The kbuild patches has been rebased on top of -linus after > > the x86 merge. > > The patch that caused ARCH to be unset has been withdrawn for > > now. It had additional issues and I need to do additional changes > > to get it included - in other words it will await next merge window. > > > > The following patches does almost clear my patch queue. I have some > > fixes pending but need some more time to check them out. > > On top of this I have a few reports from -mm that needs attention too. > > So in other words I expect a smaller set of patches for -rc1 or -rc2 > > as my time permits. > > > > In addition to latest pull request this one includes: > > - rename of > > CFLAGS => KBUILD_CFLAGS > > AFLAGS => KBUILD_AFLAGS > > CPPFLAGS => KBUILD_CPPFLAGS > > rationale behind this was two-fold: > > 1) Do not let the CFLAGS environment variable impact all builds > > 2) Allow one to specify addition gcc options on the commandline > > as make CLFAGS=-Os ... > > - introducing ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y as the future > > replacement of the EXTRA_* variants. > > > > > > The majority (line wise) is update of generated files. > > The rest is almost all one-liners so nothing controversial. > > The file with most lines changed is makefiles.txt! > > > > Bisecting shows that: > > commit f77bf01425b11947eeb3b5b54685212c302741b8 > Author: Sam Ravnborg > Date: Mon Oct 15 22:25:06 2007 +0200 > > kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y > > breaks booting with grub here. Grub stops with error 28: > Selected item cannot fit into memory. > > Reverting the commit fixes the problem. Wow. I had a similar issue with lilo, but I had no idea what may have caused it. Thanks. Fatal: Kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23-git10 is too big ERROR: Failed to run lilo. --- ~Randy - 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/