Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 -- new depancy on curses development

Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-16T19:28:36Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:41:59AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc4/2.6.18-rc4-mm1/
>>> git-lxdialog.patch
>> This tree seems to change the Makefile dependancies in the kconfig
>> subdirectory such that a plain compile of the kernel leads to an attempt
>> to build the menuconfig targets. This in turn adds a new dependancy on
>> the curses development libraries.
> What I see is that "make defconfig" builds _all_ *config targets -
> strange...

Well it could be trying to build them all for me too, but as I don't
have curses development libraries it would fail at that point. I don't
think we want it to build the ones its not using. Thats daft :).

> Hmmm, why does git pick up my hostname (mars)? Have I configured
> somethign wrong (not in git but my gentoo system)?

I had to configure my local git repo:

git repo-config user.name 'Foo Bar'
git repo-config user.email 'foo@bar.org'