From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHhFH-0004P2-CQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:19:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHhFC-0004Jo-Ge for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:19:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58011 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NHhFC-0004Jd-6W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:19:30 -0500 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.149]:40320) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NHhFC-0004lq-MD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:19:30 -0500 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 14so638559qwa.4 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:19:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B1D391E.9060809@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:19:26 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] run make defconfig References: <20091207094240.GB31370@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20091207094240.GB31370@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > OK, I got the "Run make defconfig" message again. > I think it used to be re-run automatically: why > are we asking the user to do it manually now? > It's buggy. defconfig should only be needed when a new config option is added and the old config doesn't contain it yet. But we get this message often when a new config option has not been added. I suspect it has something to do with checks on accessed time against configure and config*. We probably need to be smarter than that. Regards, Anthony Liguori