From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261207AbULADkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:40:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261209AbULADkv (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:40:51 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:18163 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261207AbULADkq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:40:46 -0500 Message-ID: <41AD3D3B.1020509@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:40:43 -0800 From: George Anzinger Reply-To: george@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: lkml Subject: Re: A problem with xconfig References: <41ABA8E5.4060504@mvista.com> <20041130052824.GA8211@mars.ravnborg.org> <41AC4C1D.1050102@mvista.com> <20041130193136.GB8777@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20041130193136.GB8777@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/