linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908211204490.30182@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>, zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@...glemail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers


On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> OK, I found the bug. There's a dependency missing.
> 
> $ make localyesconfig
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
>   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/hash
> using config: '/boot/config-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.x86_64'
> /bin/sh: line 8: scripts/kconfig/conf: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [localyesconfig] Error 127
> make: *** [localyesconfig] Error 2
> 
> Thus the script failed to run. But the sed command that converts the '=m' 
> to '=y' still ran. This gives us a distro config with all modules 
> converted to built in!

Funny that localmodconfig does not have this bug.

-- Steve

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