On 10/10/18 3:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > > When building randconfigs, the build fails at kernel compression stage > due to missing lz4 on the system but CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 has been selected > by randconfig. The result looks somethins like this: > > (cat arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs | lz4c -l -c1 stdin stdout && printf \334\141\301\001) > arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lz4 || (rm -f arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lz4 ; false) > /bin/sh: 1: lz4c: not found > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:143: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lz4] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/Makefile:112: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 > make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:290: bzImage] Error 2 > > Fail the build much earlier by checking for lz4c presence before doing > anything else. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > Makefile | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index a0c32de80482..f91de649234b 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -788,6 +788,12 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections > LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections > endif > > +ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 > +ifeq ($(CONFIG_SHELL which lz4c),) Hi, I have been informed in the past the POSIX spells "which" as "command -v" and hence requested to do s/which/command -v/ > +$(error "lz4 tool not found on this system but CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 enabled") > +endif > +endif > + > # arch Makefile may override CC so keep this after arch Makefile is included > NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include) > > cheers, -- ~Randy