Re: linux/autoconf.h problem

[Steve Papacharalambous <stevep at zee2 dot com>]

Hi Dan,

I ran into this problem building a powerpc cross compiler.

Ok, I see the problem with the arm architecture,  it is difficult to 
know what the right thing to so is to satisfy all cases,

Best regards,

Steve

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Steve Papacharalambous wrote:
>
> > I've just run into the linux/autoconf.h problem, and fixed it using 
> > the patch suggested by Rafael Ávila de Espíndola to crosstool.sh
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > @@ -145,8 +146,15 @@
> >  if test -f "$KERNELCONFIG" ; then
> >      cp $KERNELCONFIG .config
> >  fi
> > +
> >  if test -f .config; then
> >      yes "" | make ARCH=$ARCH oldconfig
> > +else
> > +    make ARCH=$ARCH mrproper
> > +    case "$LINUX_DIR" in
> > +    *2.6.*) make ARCH=$ARCH defconfig ;;
> > +    *)      yes "" | make ARCH=$ARCH config ;;
> > +    esac
> >  fi
> >
> >  # check for kernel version 2.6.*
> >
> > [/snip]
> >
> > This patch takes care of cases where there isn't a kernel config file 
> > provided in the crosstool archive, so I wondered whether this patch 
> > will make it into the next release of crosstool?
>
>
> The arm folks feel violently that 'make defconfig' is a misfeature;
> there are so many variants of arm that there is no one default,
> is the argument IIRC.  So I'm not sure the patch is right,
> nor do I know what the right thing to do is.
>
> Which architecture did you run into this on?
> - Dan



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