linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ obscure build failure if xz(1) not installed

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Date:	Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:19:46 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ obscure build failure if xz(1) not installed

On 02/09/2011 11:52 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> 
> The failure is obscured by trailing make output, and since a broken
> bzImage is created, "make install" succeeds, and the first visible
> failure is after reboot when I get the lovely
> 
>     Decompressing Linux...
> 
>     Input is not in the XZ format (wrong magic bytes)
> 
>      -- System halted
> 
> Sometimes I run "make -j4 && make install" which would have caught this,
> but the error should be more prominent and we shouldn't create bzImage
> if the dependencies are not present.
> 

Agreed that the bzImage should not have been created.  That should make
the error prominent enough (your complaint that it gets obscured with
make -j is "just how things work, sorry.")

	-hpa
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