Re: A problem with xconfig

George Anzinger
2004-12-01T03:40:51Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:31:57AM -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
>
>>>It used to be so but was addressed in a patch to scripts/kconfig/Makefile
>>>a few weeks ago. Do you see it with latest -linus / -mm?
>>
>>Gosh, did I do that. Forgot to say it was the 2.6.9 kernel. Am I the only
>>one using xconfig??
>
> No - but the fault only happens when you are starting from a fesh tree.
> Running mrporper would not delete the old .so file (kbuild 'lost' knowledge
> of it). So most people have just untarred a new kernel on top
> of the old one and it still worked.

Yeah, we are using "quilt" in a big way now and it like to start with new trees.

>
> Also the reason why I failed to fix it in the first place. xconfig and gconfig
> worked even after mrproper - because the .so file survived.
>
> Sam