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Subject: Re: Kconfig debug help
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On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:37 -0600, John Linn wrote:
> I’m trying to debug some Kconfig problems and am looking for a way to
> get more debug output.
> 
>  
> 
> I have used KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 on the command line and it didn’t help
> much.
> 
>  
> 
> I’m seeing an issue with creating a new defconfig file for a board.  I
> get the .config created, then copy it to a defconfig, and then it
> doesn’t do anything when I run make with the defconfig file.  

Yeah, I hit that myself this weekend.  It's a bug in the Kconfig area.
It's 1/2 fixed in the latest Linus and powerpc trees.

josh