Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:30:07 +0200 (EET) | From | Sergey Kubushin <> | Subject | Re: Make clean impossible in 2.3.42 |
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > > > I wonder have anyone noticed that "make clean" after a build in 2.3.42 fails > > > > with "xargs: environment too large for exec" ? > > > > workaround: Remove your .config manually. > > > It's dumb. "make clean" does not remove .config at all. It's supposed to get > > rid of all object files and libraries built on earlier stages. I did patch > > the makefile to output all "find" output to a file (it's 32K+ in size) and > > run a for loop for every line of this file. It's not a right thing and > > slows down the cleanup a little bit, but it's definitely needs fixing > > in the kernel itself. It's neither makefile's nor xargs' fault. It's the > > kernel itself who has to be blamed. > > someone posted a patch to lkml which removed all the CONFIG_xxx from the > environment.
Aha. Did you look in 2.3.43pre8? Is it in?
It's nice that "someone" posted a patch to l-k. I'm able to get the thing running too without such trivial patches. But it looks like nobody cares to fix a kernel which all they pretend to care of.
> > I'm pretty sure that all such "little" misconveniences are caused by slight > > changes in kernel behaviour. Can someone among the kernel gurus explain what > > was the reason behind changing a cmdline interface in /proc ? Have we won > > I haven't checked into this specific change but it doesn't matter: > 2.3.x is the time when you are allow to break interfaces.
It does. Each such break which affects a helluva lotta decent apps MUST be justified. It MUST have a reason to be even considered, not speaking of getting into the kernel.
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