From: bp@alien8.de (Borislav Petkov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new streaming format
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:38:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130716093820.GE4402@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201307161132.39845.yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:32:39AM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> No, this is already too late: the given .config *is* already broken and
> unbuildable.
Yes, and we don't build it because we fail the build.
> That does not work in two cases:
> - older distros that do not have the tool packaged
This point is moot - distro kernels are built by the distro people.
> - automatic test-harness that run thousands of randconfig a day
randconfigs are not guaranteed to build successfully.
> The idea is to be always have a .config that is buildable with the
> current toolset of the system, especially for esoteric and/or recent
> tools that are not packaged and/or installed by default by the
> distros.
How are you going to tell the user running make <something>config to
install the missing tools?
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-06 8:42 [PATCH -next 1/2] arm: Remove enforced Os flag for LZ4 decompressor Kyungsik Lee
2013-05-06 8:42 ` [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new streaming format Kyungsik Lee
2013-05-06 9:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-10 8:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-10 9:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-10 18:28 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-07-10 20:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-11 4:34 ` Kyungsik Lee
2013-07-11 9:46 ` [PATCH] .gitignore: ignore *.lz4 files Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-07-12 7:56 ` [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new streaming format Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 8:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-12 10:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 10:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-12 11:18 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-12 12:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 12:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-12 12:34 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-07-12 12:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-15 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-15 22:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 7:47 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-16 7:56 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-16 8:08 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-16 8:27 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-16 9:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-16 9:12 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-16 9:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-16 9:32 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-16 9:38 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-07-16 9:45 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-16 9:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-16 10:04 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-07-16 18:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-07-17 21:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-07-17 21:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-17 22:30 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-17 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-18 8:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-18 7:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-18 7:34 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-18 7:47 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-18 7:52 ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-18 20:47 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-07-16 9:13 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-07-16 9:25 ` Yann E. MORIN
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