linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: fix interaction of CONFIG_IKCONFIG and KCONFIG

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20101214221808.GB8831@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:18:08 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@...ometrics.ca>
Cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: fix interaction of CONFIG_IKCONFIG and
	KCONFIG_CONFIG

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:39:44AM -0500, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> If you try to build a kernel with KCONFIG_CONFIG set (to a value
> not equal to .config) and that config sets CONFIG_IKCONFIG then the
> build will fail with:
> 
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.config', needed by \
> `kernel/config_data.gz'.  Stop.
> 
> because the kernel/Makefile contains a direct reference to .config.
> 
> This issue has been present since the introduction of KCONFIG_CONFIG
> in 14cdd3c402bf7c66f0bcd76e290f0770a54a4b21.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@...ometrics.ca>
> CC: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
> CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> 
> ---
> 
> changes since v1:
>  * rebased to 6313e3c21743cc88bb5bd8aa72948ee1e83937b6 of
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>  * export KCONFIG_CONFIG from top-level Makefile (Michal Marek)

Thanks, applied to kbuild-2.6.git#kbuild.

Michal
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/