Hi, again. It's not the first time, make exits with $?>0 within a kernel tree, and I'm getting fed up with digging those Makefile's, config.somewhat's and ./script/'s. It's a pure, stock, unmodified linux-2.5.59.tar.bz2 file from kernel.org, I have extracted into my home. I say 'make xconfig' - a well known command. First, make moans about a non-existant g++, needed to compile and link some stuff in ./scripts. 'make' is right here, I dont have a c++ compiler with that name, but I dont need one - the kernel is written in ANSI-C. Ok, make love, not war, and do a symlink to some g++-2.95.3 lying around. Next, make runs a while, until it crashes with SEGV, after having dumped tons of lines like >> /boot/config-2.4.18-3:1893: trying to assign nonexistent symbol ... Somewhere before this error orgasm I see the line >> # using defaults found in /boot/config-2.4.18-3 Booom. Why the hell is that make digging in /boot on my disk ? I say 'make xconfig', and I know what I do. I didn't say 'make oldconfig' or 'make randomconfig' or whatever. Ok. There's a stale RH kernel config file in there, but: I translated a lot of 2.4.xx, some 2.5.xx, and all went well - as expected. Any regression test should have revealed that mis-behaviour - if performed with according vectors. I've checked the in-tree Docs - ok, I did 'grep -rw -A 2 -B 2 boot * | grep config' - and there was no word about that config-defaulting. So, who in the world _REALLY_ knows, how a Linux kernel is to be made ? If that person exists, would she/he be so pleasant and share here/his knowledge ? Am I too bigheaded, if I would volunteer for regression tesing ? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
