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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:13:11
Message-Id: robbat2-20111104T221059-171614520Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel by Fabio Erculiani
1 On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 11:02:18PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
2 > > The ONLY time that kernel config checks are fatal is when you're
3 > > building kernel modules, and the module will fail to compile unless
4 > > there is a .config and suitable options set.
5 > And that is bad anyway, because it doesn't work as expected when the
6 > package is merged from tbz2, there are no kernel sources installed and
7 > multiple kernels are on the same system (and perhaps you are using a
8 > package manager that properly supports multiple installed kernel
9 > module packages).
10 I said when you're building. When you're merging from binpkg, you're not
11 building...
12
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14 Robin Hugh Johnson
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