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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pre-merge checks
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 21:25:38
Message-Id: 718c5bf5-ab4b-e329-1519-32586148335c@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Pre-merge checks by Francisco Ares
1 Francisco Ares wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Em sex, 24 de jan de 2020 13:21, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××.net
5 > <mailto:neil@××××.net>> escreveu:
6 >
7 > On 24 January 2020 13:48:23 GMT, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com
8 > <mailto:frares@×××××.com>> wrote:
9 >
10 > Hi, All.
11 >
12 > I would like to see all pre-merge checks prior to build a new
13 > kernel, just to make sure all kernel configurations needed até
14 > satisfied.
15 >
16 > I thought on issuing an "emerge -e world" then interrupting
17 > the process at the beguinning of the first package build.  But
18 > this looks a weird way of doing things.
19 >
20 > Is there any other way?
21 >
22 > Thanks!
23 > Francisco
24 >
25 >
26 > If you use make oldconfig, this shouldn't be necessary as all the
27 > checks have already been made.
28 > --
29 > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
30 >
31 >
32 > This system has quite an old Gentoo instalation, and some packages
33 > show complaints about kernel features.  So I thought on doing an
34 > overall check.
35 >
36 > Thanks!
37
38 I've noticed in the past that some packages do that during the configure
39 stage.  The only way I know to do those is to emerge the package and
40 check the configure stage in the log.  Keep in mind, some options won't
41 cause a fail.  It may continue to build without certain options but not
42 be able to perform whatever those options add capabilities for.  One
43 that I used to get a error from is the nvidia drivers package.  On rare
44 occasions it wanted certain options enabled.  I don't know if it still
45 does that but would be surprised if it complained when certain drivers
46 are not enabled. 
47
48 There may be a way to use elogviewer to do this, or at least some way to
49 "scan"/grep the log files there.  I suspect you could view those logs,
50 figure out a common set of words/phrases and then get a tool to find
51 them for you.  My grep, xargs and friends abilities are not only
52 limited, they almost don't exist compared to what I've seen some post on
53 here.  Maybe that idea will allow someone who is good at them to come up
54 with ways to accomplish that or give you ideas if you have those skills. 
55
56 Hope that helps.
57
58 Dale
59
60 :-)  :-)