[Buildroot] Linux won't build any more?

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 4 18:20:12 UTC 2014


Dear Vincent Stehlé,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:46:28 +0100, Vincent Stehlé wrote:

> FYI I wonder if the recent commits on the master branch have not broken 
> linux kernel build in some cases. For example:
> 
>    $ make freescale_imx6sabresd_defconfig
>    $ make
>    linux/linux.mk:171: *** Configuration file 
> '/arch/arm/configs/imx6_defconfig' not found..  Stop.
> 
> Same with qemu_arm_vexpress_defconfig.
> 
> Git bisect points at commit b4cacbf5b15db06132b5f401d39b4c8d4e79158e, 
> "linux: check the configuration file exists". If I revert this commit 
> build will indeed still complain about the config but will go further.

I've now reverted the problematic commit, since the approach used in
the patches cannot work with internal kernel defconfigs (i.e defconfigs
that are shipped within the kernel sources).

Thanks a lot for your report!

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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