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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ obscure build failure if xz(1) not installed
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:19:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5304F2.7000404@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110209195258.GN11874@hexapodia.org>

On 02/09/2011 11:52 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> 
> The failure is obscured by trailing make output, and since a broken
> bzImage is created, "make install" succeeds, and the first visible
> failure is after reboot when I get the lovely
> 
>     Decompressing Linux...
> 
>     Input is not in the XZ format (wrong magic bytes)
> 
>      -- System halted
> 
> Sometimes I run "make -j4 && make install" which would have caught this,
> but the error should be more prominent and we shouldn't create bzImage
> if the dependencies are not present.
> 

Agreed that the bzImage should not have been created.  That should make
the error prominent enough (your complaint that it gets obscured with
make -j is "just how things work, sorry.")

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-09 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09 19:52 CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ obscure build failure if xz(1) not installed Andy Isaacson
2011-02-09 20:07 ` Pavel Vasilyev
2011-02-09 20:38   ` Andy Isaacson
2011-02-09 21:14     ` Pavel Vasilyev
2011-02-09 21:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-02-09 22:01 ` Lasse Collin
2011-02-09 23:23   ` Andy Isaacson
2011-02-10 12:24     ` Lasse Collin
2011-02-10 13:15       ` Lasse Collin

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