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
next prev 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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