On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:26:47 +0300 Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > I was going through the somewhat tedious task of updating the 4xx > > defconfigs today, and I noticed some odd behavior from Kconfig. > > Basically, I would do: > > > > make ppc44x_defconfig > > make oldconfig > > <build> > > cp .config arch/powerpc/configs/ppc44x_defconfig > > make distclean > > > > I did this for a number of configs. Then I went back and tried to build > > ppc44x_defconfig again and I got this result: > > > > [jwboyer@localhost linux-2.6]$ make ppc44x_defconfig > > HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep > > HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c > > SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c > > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o > > scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c:1628: warning: ‘input’ defined but not used > > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf > > [jwboyer@localhost linux-2.6]$ make oldconfig > > scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/powerpc/Kconfig > > # > > # using defaults found in /boot/config-2.6.25.13-104.fc9.ppc64 > > # > > > > There was no .config file present after the initial 'make > > ppc44x_defconfig', so it defaulted to using something in /boot. I'm a > > bit baffled here, but that seems to be common to any newly updated > > defconfig I've done. > > > > Was there a change to Kconfig recently that won't copy the defconfig > > file to .config if there are no symbol changes or something like that? > > Thanks for your bug report, this should have worked. > > @Sam: > I've bisected this and it is caused by > commit f443d2eccf077afd8a839cc7ed66cc4d520c5f05 > (kconfig: speed up all*config + randconfig). Thanks Adrian. I had intended to bisect it this evening, but you beat me to the punch. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
